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“Small Beginning with Vallarpadam-But a huge icon on the Globe”
India’s first international container trans-shipment terminal (ICTT) in the Special Economic Zone at nearby Vallarpadam Island,Kochi designed to handle the largest container ships,will be opened by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday with a token inaugural call by a vessel that’s small by industry standards. The country's first global hub terminal, the ICTT is in strategic proximity to international sea routes.
Kochi has been made a clear thumbimpression on the Globalradar of maritime trade with OEL Dubai.OEL Dubai have make the small beginning with their first vessel with cargo in the ICTT on Thursday,a day prior to the official launch of the International Terminal.OEL Dubai(IMO 9351804), a Panama-flagged vessel with about 500 containers came to Cochi from Colombo and will return to Colombo after a few days.
Lal Bahadur Shastri, a container ship owned by Shipping Corp. of India Ltd with a capacity to load 1,869 standard containers, will dock at ICTT Vallarpadam on Friday to load containers before going to Colombo and onward to Jebel Ali on the SCI Middle East India Liner Express Service, or Smile service, run by the state-owned carrier. This will be the official launch of the Inernational Terminal.This ship requires a draft of just 9-10m to dock.
The total cost of the first and second phase of the terminal is pegged at around Rs 6,250 crore.. The terminal after its completion, will be able to handle four million TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) of cargo per annum.And also the first phase of the project is ready to handle one million TEUs per annum.
Kochi: Six months after its commissioning, the country’s first ever International Container Transshipment Terminal at Vallarpadam is yet to commence actual operations
With hundreds of containers held up at ICTT and a number of International companies backing out,
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The church was built by Portuguese missionaries in 1524.
It is said that the missionaries discovered a painting of the Lady of Ransom, and later in a dream,
they were asked to establish a church in Vallarpadam, which they dutifully did.
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Kochi: When the ongoing works at the Vallarpadam International Container Transshipment Terminal is completed by November, it is poised to create a substantial number of new jobs, especially in the logistics sector.
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Scientists at Universidad Politécnica de Valencia have been working on a solution to a port container terminal management, specifically the automatic allocation of containers. Given its inherent complexity, they propose that multi-agent systems are the most suitable method for addressing this problem.
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Kochi, the Queen of the Arabian Sea, is one of the important towns when it comes to visiting in
southern part of India. It offers the nature lovers the beauty of coconut palms and endless blue
sea waters mushrooming all around. |
 Kochi is a cosmopolitan city modeling itself on the lines of Bangalore and Mumbai. A few decades back, the commercial centre in Kochi or Ernakulam, as it was then called, was restricted to Broadway and M.G.Road. |
Parasurama after defeating the Kshathriya Kings, approached the wise
men for penance. As a Self-mortification he was advised to create
a land for Brahmins. He readily agreed and meditated at Gokarnam. |
Munnar is an attractive, beautifull hill station wrapped with unending expanse of green tea
plantations. Backwaters have always been a tourist attraction in Alappuzha.
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Munnar is an attractive, beautifull hill station wrapped with unending expanse of green tea plantations. The mind cooling natural beauty, waterfalls, wildlife sanctuaries and lakes together draw tourists from all around to Munnar, and was the summer resort of British Government in South India. It is located 133 kms from 1600 to 1800 meters above sea level.The sprawling green tea plantations picturebook towns, winding lanes and holiday fecilities, make this an amazing hillstation. |
Usually a 64 km drive from Cochin to Alappuzha in early January will be a exhausting experience. But scenic beauty of Kerala all along NH 47 highway is a mesmerizing .The drizzle that is a part of normal Kerala weather almost through out the year makes the journey even more charming . Alappuzha has a unique history as a port since16th century. Dalwa Raja Kesavadas said to have made significant contributions towards the development of this town .The Britsh nick named the place "Venice of the East ". |
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