Rinkesh Roy, former Chairman of Paradip Port Authority has been named as the President of JSW Infrastructure. The company board had approved Roy’s appointment on August 1. Earlier Rinkesh Roy had held the additional charge as Chairman of Visakhapatnam Port Authority, V O Chidambaranar Port Authority and Kamarajar Port Ltd and Dredging Corporation of India Ltd.
JSW Infrastructure is India’s second biggest private port operator now and currently has a capacity to handle about 170 million tonnes (mt) of cargo from its network of ten operational ports and terminals across India.
Rinkesh Roy will be heading the company as it proceeds with major infrastructure projects such as the port development at Keni in Karnataka with an investment of Rs4,118.84 crores, another port at Jatadhari Muhan in Odisha costing some Rs4,500 crores and at Murbe in Maharashtra estimated to cost Rs4,259 crores.
