Kolkata Port aims to increase connectivity, simplify processes

Kidderpore docks designated for IWT trade and HDC to be the hub of LNG on the east coast, the port aspires to provide competitive services to its stakeholders and be the port of choice not only for hinterland and North-East India but also Eastern water grid including BBIN (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal) & Myanmar.

The port future plans emphasized connectivity says port Chairman

The Union Minister of Port and Shipping, Shri Sarbananda Sonowal held a review meeting with the Syama Prasad Mookherjee Port (SMP), Kolkata where the Port Chairman Vinit Kumar informed the minister that the port has future plans that emphasized connectivity, estate management, capacity augmentation and process simplification in the two dock systems of Kolkata Dock System and Haldia Dock Complex.

The port’s spokesperson shared that the Union minister was intimated on the developments undertaken under Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s ‘Gatishakti National Plan’. It is learnt that Kolkata Port chairman, Mr Vinit Kumar shared the integrated approach of the port for multi-modal connectivity as envisioned under the plan.

The port has initiated a number of Ease of Doing Business (EoDB) and technology-led initiatives