Paradip Port Trust (PPT) plans to set up a new port at Bahuda Muhan near Gopalpur in a joint venture with the Odisha Government to handle thermal coal cargo and cater to power generation units in the southern region.
 
 The proposed satellite port would be a ‘green port’ with fully mechanised operations and negligible impact on environment, GJ Rao, Chairman, PPT informed. He described the site identified for the purpose as ideal for port construction.
  
 The chairman said the capital dredging works being undertaken to increase the draught of entrance channel, approach channel and berthface to facilitate the handling of 125,000 Deadweight tonnage (DWT) size vessels is on the verge of completion. 
 
 Meanwhile, traffic at Paradip Port declined to 54.25 million tonne (mn t) in 2011-12 from 56.03 mn t in the previous year. It has drawn up plans to raise its capacity to 251 mn t by 2020.
 
 Earlier, the port raised its capacity to 80 mn t per annum by adding four mn t through mechanisation and deepening of navigation channels among other measures.