Alang: The delegation of the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) and senior officials from various ministries of the central government have decided to form a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for the use of plates from ships after their two-day visit to Alang and Sihor. This decision comes after BIS implemented a ban on the production of rods in re-rolling mills using plates extracted from ships arriving at the Alang ship recycling yard as raw material. In response, the central government form...Read More

Surat: Ghogha - Hazira ropax ferry service has resumed after a long monsoon break. The ferry service has now an additional feature of Solar power run cafeterias (total three), cabin and club. It takes three hours for the ferry ship to travel between Ghogha (Bhavnagar) in Saurashtra and Hazira (Surat) in South Gujarat. The ferry service was closed for last one and half month due to monsoon. It is starting from Thursday with a new ship Voyage Express along with the earlier ship Voyage Symphany....Read More

Okha: In a rescue operation conducted at midnight of 02/03 August 2022, Indian Coast Guard (ICG) ship C-413 rescued five fishermen from a flooding fishing boat off Okha. All crew have been brought safely to Okha. At about 00:45 AM on 03 August 2022, Indian Coast Guard District Headquarters, Okha received information regarding uncontrolled flooding onboard Indian Fishing Boat (IFB) ‘Raj Ayushi’. The position of the boat was ascertained and observed to be 10 Nautical Miles off Okha. ICG re...Read More

Gandhinagar: The first load of coal has been dispatched through a newly laid railway line from Bedi Port near Jamnagar. By stating it as “first-of-its-kind” rail connectivity, the Chief Minister of Gujarat Mr. Bhupendra Patel congratulated Gujarat Rail Infrastructure Development Corporation(G-RIDE), the state’s Joint Venture Company (JVC) with Indian Railways. This JVC has implemented the project based on the PPP model through engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contracts with...Read More

Bhavnagar: The luxury cruise ship, Star Pisces, has arrived at the Alang Shipbreaking Yard on its final voyage. The bankrupt Star Cruise Line has set out to sell three of its cruise ships, including the Star Pisces ship, set to be dismantled in Alang. This cruise ship weighs nearly 16722 metric tons. This luxury ship has 700 cabins, and all cabins have advanced electronic items and furniture. The cruise ship can carry 1900 passengers and 750 crew members. The cruise ship has fa...Read More

Porbandar: Indian Coast Guard (ICG) Ship with survivors which were rescued yesterday from sinking Merchant Vessel, 185 km from Porbandar coast has entered Porbandar harbour today. All 22 crew including 01 Pakistani & 01 Sri Lankan are safe. The crew, though exhausted, expressed their gratitude to ICG for a miraculous rescue operation. On 06 Jul 22, when Indian Coast Guard District Headquarters, Porbandar received a distress alert from merchant vessel Global King-1, it launched rescue missi...Read More

Pipavav: APM Terminals Pipavav in a statement said it has commissioned 1,000 kWp (kilowatt peak) DC capacity solar power plant at the Port for self-consumption. With commissioning of Rooftop solar power project, the Port will reduce overall energy consumption from Grid supply. The solar power will help in replacing approx. 10% of Port’s total energy consumption as well as result in reducing carbon footprints to the tune of 1100 tons per year. Commenting on new solar plant, Mr. Jakob Friis S...Read More

Kutch: The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) seized 52 kgs of Cocaine hidden amidst imported containers of 25 metric tonnes of common salt at Mundra port on Thursday. The international market value of the Cocaine confiscated is about Rs 500 crore. Prima facie, it seems that the drug haul belongs to an Iranian drug mafia syndicate because the containers were offloaded from a ship that arrived from Iran. The DRI has also identified the entity behind the imported consignment and began ra...Read More

New Delhi: The government has announced some relaxation to its order dated 13th May issued by Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT), Department of Commerce on restricting wheat exports. It has been decided that wherever wheat consignments have been handed over to Customs for examination and have been registered into their systems on or prior to 13.5.2022, such consignments would be allowed to be exported. The government also allowed a wheat consignment headed for Egypt, which was alread...Read More