Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019<\/a><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\nThe Gujarat Maritime Board (GMB) had signed an MoU with\nForesight Group to set up this port terminal at Bhavnagar in the Vibrant\nGujarat Summit held in January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Apart from the CNG terminal, the investors would develop a\nRo-Ro terminal, liquid cargo terminal, and container terminal at Bhavnagar port\nwith a cumulative investment of \u20b91,900 crore. The proposed CNG port terminal\nwill have a capacity to handle 1.5 million metric tonne per annum (MMTPA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To develop CNG and other terminals on the north side of the\nexisting port would require major modifications in the existing infrastructure,\nincluding dredging in water channel of port basin, construction of two lock\ngates, and off-shore infrastructure for CNG transportation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gujarat\nMaritime Board:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nGujarat Maritime Board (GMB) has established itself as\nmaritime leader in port development, privatisation and specialised cargo\nhandling in India. It is also the first maritime board of the country which was\ncreated up in 1982 with a vision “To enhance and harness ports and\ninternational trade as vehicles for economic development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With foresighted thinking and strategically located longest\ncoastline of 1600 kms, GMB charted a different and unexplored route of port\ndevelopment in 1980s. This was the era when major ports enjoyed monopoly over\nsea freight, with very little or no port capacity with state governments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Gujarat government gave its approval for a compressed natural gas – CNG port terminal at Bhavnagar with a proposed investment of \u20b91,900 crore. It will be developed jointly by U.K.-headquartered Foresight Group and Mumbai-based Padmanabh Mafatlal Group. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 The Gujarat Maritime Board (GMB) had signed an MoU with Foresight Group […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":6192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[794,45],"tags":[76],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-6191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-november-2019","category-current-affairs-articles","tag-gujarat-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6193,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6191\/revisions\/6193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6191"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=6191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}