A coal loading facility will be set up at Rs 250 crore by Ennore Port, being run by the Union government in Tamil Nadu. It is the third facility for the State-owned power utility Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation to tap rising demand for coal used for generating electricity.
The proposal was cleared by the port’s board on October 11. The new facility will have a capacity to load 4 million tonne of coal a year.
A tender to select a construction contractor for the project will be called soon.
Ennore Port has built two coal berths with a combined capacity of 12 million tonne a year that are run by TANGEDCO, the port’s biggest customer accounting for about 40 per cent of its revenues. Ennore clocked the highest growth rate among the 12 ports owned by the Union government in the six months ended September.