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•Sittwe Ch. 0.0 km

Paletwa Ch. 158 Km

Kaletwa (Ch 225 km

Myeikwa (IM Border)

•Kyauktaw

•Bay of Bengal

Kolkata Sittwe 539 km

Sittwe Paletwa 158 km

Paletwa Kaletwa 67 km

Kaletwa Myeikwa (IM Border) 62 km

Myeikwa (IM Border) Lawngtlai 100 km

Lawngtlai Aizawl 334 km

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•Lawngtlai

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Project Components …post review

Fairway development / Sea-dredging in Sittwe port area

Construction of Port / IWT terminals at Sittwe

Fairway development / Dredging on Sittwe – Paletwa stretch of Kaladan river (158 Km)

Construction of IWT Terminal at Paletwa

Construction of 6 IWT vessels (300 ton each)

Highway (129 kms) from Paletwa to Indo-Myanmar Border.

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Existing Sittwe Port Office

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Existing Port at Sittwe

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Existing Loading / Unloading at Sittwe Port

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Progress made

• MEA issued Letter of Acceptance(LoA) to Essar Projects India Ltd. in April 2010 at a cost of Rs. 342 Crores (Approx US $ 75 millions) for the Port & IWT works.

• Agreement between MEA and Contractor signed in May 2010.

• Port & IWT works to be implemented in 36 months.

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Govt. of Myanmar has provided land for Construction & Setting up of Contractor’s camp at Sittwe during Sep 2010. Permissions for import of Construction equipments & Opening of bank account in Oct 2010.

Progress made… contd.

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Progress made… contd.

Ground breaking ceremony attended by Senior dignitaries from both countries held on 19th December 2010 at Sittwe.

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Progress made… contd.

• Construction activity at Sittwe started in Dec 2010.

• Consequent to relocation of terminal to Paletwa, preparation of DPR for New road section between Paletwa and Kaletwa has become necessary.

• MEA has appointed M/s IRCON Infrastructure & Services Ltd. New Delhi as the agency for preparing the D.P.R. for the new road section.

• Design and model testing of 300 DWT Barges has been completed. Selection of Yard is in final stage. Barges are to be built in Myanmar.

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Progress made… contd.

• Reclamation for backup facilities at Sittwe 96% completed, Construction of Rubble mounted Dyke 70% Completed.

• Construction of Pile work at IWT & Port Approach Jetty at Sittwe 98% completed. Main Jetty piling work shall commence shortly.

• Pre-cast concrete works for IWT & Port Jetty at Sittwe 50% completed.

• Excavation work at Paletwa 15% completed.

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Reclamation for backup facilities (96%)

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Dyke Construction work at Sittwe (70%)

PILING GANTRY 1PILING GANTRY 2

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Piling work at IWT Approach Jetty (98%)

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Pre-Cast Yard at Sittwe (50%)

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Excavation work at Paletwa (15%)

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Progress made… contd.

• Hydrographic Survey at Sittwe Port and also in between Sittwe – Paletwa stretch was completed on 2.11.2009 and 20.2.2012 respectively by IWAI with the assistance from the local Survey agency.

• 6 Nos of Shallow area for dredging in Kaladan river was identified. 5 Nos of Shallow area was indicated in DPR (2002).

• The Location of Navigational Aids, Positions of submerged Rocks and Dredging alignment are to be demarcated as per the new Survey charts.

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Hydrographic Survey in Kaladan River

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Plan of Approach & Harbour channel at Sittwe

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Layout of Port &IWT Jetty, Sittwe

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Layout of IWT Jetty at Paletwa

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Important Points / issues

• Approval of General layout drawings for backup facilities was submitted to Working Committee, Govt. of Myanmar :-

on 3.11.2011 for Sittwe.

on 9.11.2011 for Paletwa

Approvals are yet to be received.

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Important Points / issues

• M/s. Essar Projects has already expressed that they can complete the work within the scheduled time by mobilising additional resources subject to the receipt of above approvals without further delay.

• Otherwise project may get delayed by another 6 more working months.

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