What are the proposals for developing a cruise shipping terminal?
About two to three international cruise vessels call at the port every month. In addition, we have regular calls between this port and the Andaman port for non-cruise passengers. The Centre has approved its cruise shipping policy in last September to carve a prominent space in world tourism and to showcase the country as a major source and destination of world tourism. Chennai is one of the ports identified by the government for setting up cruise terminals under public-private partnership mode. Any plans to create facilities outside the port to support the massive expansion? We propose to transfer many of the cargo storing, loading and clearing formalities to outside the port by developing an integrated dry port and multi-modal logistics hub. For this the port has sought 100 acre from the Tamil Nadu State Industrial Development Corporation for creating this facility near the proposed Sriperumbudur SEZ.
