Kattupalli Port UPSC NOTE

Kattupalli Port

The Kattupalli Shipyard, officially Adani Katupalli Port Private Limited is a large shipyard project at Kattupalli village near Ennore in Chennai.
Being built by L&T Shipbuilding Ltd. It is being set up jointly by TIDCO and Larsen & Toubro (L&T) in two phases.
L&T shipbuilding Kattupalli is a minor port.
Adani ports and special economic zone (APSEZ) acquired Kattupalli Port from L&T in June 2018 and renamed it as Adani Katupalli Port Private Limited (AKPPL).

In terms of cargo generation, the terminal is located close to the majority of Container Freight stations in Chennai.
It is planning to compete with Japanese and Korean shipyards in building "specialised ships," such as large-size warships, car carriers, submarines, naval offshore patrol vessels, fast patrol vessels and corvettes.
After Colombo and Singapore, Kattupalli will be the third major international destination for ship repairs in the region.

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The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) will hold a public hearing on the expansion of Adani Group’s Kattupalli Port in Tiruvallur district on September 5.
The company applied for environmental clearance in 2019 for expanding the capacity of the port at a cost of ₹53,031 crore.
The expansion, as mentioned in the ‘Proposed Revised Master Plan Development of Kattupalli Port’, involves accommodating all berths as a multi-purpose cargo port with transloading, backup and independent port craft and waste reception facilities and conveyor systems.
According to the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), the port is proposed to be expanded from 330 acres to 6,111 acres.
Of this, nearly 2,000 acres is planned to be reclaimed by dumping dredged sand into the sea.
The proposed expansion evoked strong opposition from environmentalists and Opposition parties so much so that the public hearing scheduled.
A section of environmental activists said the project would turn the Ennore-Pulicat backwaters into an industrial area, severely affecting the livelihood of fishers, besides causing damage to Pulicat Lake.