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Vallarpadam Container Terminal will be complete by April 2010

The International transshipment terminal at vallarpadam will be launched commercially in the coming April. This was officially announced by the Dubai Port World who is conducting the construction of International terminal here. The construction works will be completed by the coming March. This was announced by DP world officials in a meeting with the port trust authorities. A meeting will be conducted on December 28 for evaluating the progress in construction. The meeting is scheduled because of the Global financial crisis and the new money lending schemes by the Dubai world.

The port has an investment of about 1600 crores.It is important to complete the project in the proposed time because of the huge sum involved. The port trust is anxious because the dredging process by DP world is showing less progress. This reduced the construction speed of the ship channel dredging conducted by the port trust. The DP world officials promised that the construction work will be completed by this March 31^st. The DP world is planning to implement more efficient machineries for boosting up the speed of dredging in vallarpadam. The double lane road as well as the railway to valarpadam will get completed by March 31^st. The ship channel costruction will also be completed by this date.

In order to set up the cranes in the vallarpadom terminal region the dredging process by the DP world need to get completed. The DP world official said that the financial crisis in Dubai region will not affect the vallarpadom terminal. The officials also said that the cranes also will be set within March 31^st.