Jalna Dry Port

Dry port in Maharashtra, India

19°50′59.3″N 75°48′47.1″E / 19.849806°N 75.813083°E / 19.849806; 75.813083DetailsBuilt2024Operated byContainer Corporation of IndiaSize500 Acre

Jalna dry port is a dry port (inland port) located near Jalna, Maharashtra, India. It has been developed by Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT). The facility was inaugurated on 12 March 2024 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It will be operated and maintained by CONCOR^[1] National Highways Logistics Management Limited (NHLML) and JNPT have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the development of Multi-Modal Logistics Park (MMLP) at Jalna Dry Port in Maharashtra.^[2]

The dry port is expected to operate as one of the largest major container ports of India with an upcoming container handling capacity of almost 10 million Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit (TEU). As announced earlier, JNPT envisaged the need to establish extended logistic facilities in the hinterland to facilitate the overall operations at the port.future. Geographically strategic locations of Jalna and Aurangabad for Jalna dry port along with Delhi - Mumbai Industrial Corridor Project and Mumbai–Nagpur Expressway Samrudhhi Mahamarg would make these cities “growth engines” of Maharashtra in the future.^[3]

History

In 2014, Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari revealed that the government was looking to set up Marathwada's first dry port on 500 acres of land between Aurangabad and Jalna.^[4] The Port was to be developed on private-public partnership basis.^[5] JNPT appointed Ernst & Young as consultants to prepare a detailed project report (DPR) for the project in 2015. 185 hectares of land had been acquired at the cost of Rs. 88 Crores.^[6]^[7] In June 2018, during the then Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis' trip to the UAE to attract investments to Maharashtra, Dubai-based DP World agreed to invest in logistics parks in Nagpur and develop logistics hubs along the transport corridor from JNPT to the interiors by nursing dry ports of Wardha, Jalna, Nasik and Sangli.^[8] Fadnavis had mentioned that the government’s sanction for a dry port at Jalna district would enable expeditious movement of goods to JNPT.^[9]

References

^ "CONCOR to take over dry port operations". Daily Shipping Times. 18 March 2024. Retrieved 18 June 2024.
^ "National Highways Logistics Management Limited & JNPT sign MoU for the development of Multi Modal Logistics Park (MMLP) at Jalna in Maharashtra". Press Information Bureau. 21 September 2024. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
^ "Dry Port - Jalna: Update". The Times of India. 15 February 2021.
^ "Region's first dry port to come up at Aurangabad-Jalna road". Times of India. Retrieved 4 July 2018.
^ "JNPT to float tenders to develop Jalna dry port". 28 December 2016. Retrieved 4 July 2018.
^ Sanjay Banerjee (27 December 2015). "JNPT hires consultant to make Jalna dry port project report". The Times of India. Retrieved 4 July 2018.
^ "PM Modi Inaugurates Phase-I Of Rs 7,900-Crore Fourth Container Terminal At JNPT". Retrieved 4 July 2018.
^ "UAE to invest in Maharashtra infra projects- Business News". www.businesstoday.in. 11 June 2018. Retrieved 4 July 2018.
^ "Aurangabad, Jalna have emerged as state's industrial magnet: Devendra Fadnavis". 5 May 2018. Retrieved 4 July 2018.