DP World
Ltd, APM
Terminals Management B V, JM Baxi Ports & Logistics Ltd, Terminal
Investment Ltd, JSW Infrastructure Ltd, International
Container Terminal Services Inc and QTerminals L.L.C. have submitted
price bids on a tender floated by Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority to
privatise the container handling terminal run by the State-owned port.
The price bids will be opened after the
port authority gets security clearance for the bidders from the government, J
N Port Authority sources said.
J M Baxi
Ports & Logistics (a unit of Mumbai-based J M Baxi Group) has partnered
with CMA Terminals Holding, a subsidiary of CMA CGM SA, the world’s third
largest container shipping firm.
Terminal Investment Ltd, a unit of Mediterranean Shipping
Company S.A (MSC), the world’s biggest container line by capacity, has
bid on its own for the terminal that will have a capacity to handle 1.8 million
twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) a year.
Dubai government-owned D P World, Manila-based International Container
Terminal Services and JSW Infrastructure have placed price bids on their own.
APM Terminals Management, the container port operating unit of
A P Moller-Maersk A/S, has tied-up with Taiwanese container line Wan Hai Lines
Ltd to bid for the box terminal tender as bidders look to align with shipping
lines to secure volumes.
L.L.C.
(Qatar) is the terminal operating company jointly formed by Qatar Ports
Management Company and Qatar Navigation.
The project is a part of the National
Monetisation Pipeline (NMP) of the government.