The rail cargo handling capacity at Ennore Port has quadrupled to 24 million tonnes a year with the commissioning of additional rail siding costing Rs 51 crore. The connectivity with the rest of the rail network in the South and North have also improved with this railway siding commissioning. Rail link is likely to be strengthened further to improve the port’s evacuation and storage capacity.The port is likely to handle 24 rakes of bulk cargo by rail instead of 6 rakes a day earlier. It is estimated that by 2017, the port capacity is likely to touch 67 million tonne of cargo annually.

The Shipping Ministry has approved the construction of a multi-purpose cargo handling berth with a quay length of 270 m at Ennore port on a public-private partnership mode

The company's subsidiary Adani Hazira Port Pvt Ltd has begun operations of handling liquid bulk cargo at it's Hazira terminal. The phase-II of construction for next 1,00,000 KL is already in progress including separate base oil terminal of 37,000 KL. So far 67% of the work is over and the rest would complete by March 2014.

Petroleum Oil and Lubricant (POL) berth no. 13 was recently commissioned by DBM Geotechnics And Constructions Pvt Ltd at New Mangalore Port to cater to the additional demand of the potential users.

The subsidiary of APSEZ has completed the steam coal handling project at Visakhapatnam port. The capacity of the facility would be 6.4 million tonne a year.

Plans containerized cargo handling facility on BOT basis. The project is for 5 MTPA multipurpose cargo berth. Tenders are in finalisation stage.

The port trust had recently invited bids for 10 year contract for mechanised handling of containerised cargo at three out of the 12 berths in the Netaji Subhas Dock (NSD) of Kolkata port.

The port plans to set up a new coal handling berth for TANGEDCO with a capacity to load 4 million tonne of

Bagged an order for complete operation and maintenance of Coal Handling Plant and earthmovers for a Thermal Power Plant.