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Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd (APSEZ) has received environment and coastal regulation zone approvals from a top government agency for setting up a ship recycling facility at its port in Mundra, Gujarat.
By getting into the ship recycling business, India’s biggest private port developer is looking to tap potential arising from global regulations on environmentally safe and sound ship recycling, which will limit the number of facilities where end-of-life ships can be dismantled unless they conform to these rules.
The Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) in the ministry of environment, forest and climate change approved an application filed by APSEZ at its meeting on 29 June.
The proposed facility, spread over 40.7 hectares, will recycle ships of up to 16,000 light displacement tonnage (LDT) or 80,000 dead weight tonnes (DWT) cargo carrying capacity. About 0.3 million tonnes of material is expected to be recovered from recycled ships at the facility every year.
The facility, to be located in Mundra taluk of Gujarat’s Kutch district, is hundreds of nautical miles away from Alang-Sosiya in the state’s Bhavnagar distric
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