Posco likely to use Paradip port

The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests(MoEF) has already given its conditional go-ahead to the proposed captive port to be set up about ten kilometre from Paradip near the Jatadhari mouth. However, the Paradip Port Trust(PPT) authorities meanwhile have approached the Posco-India and requested it to use the existing facilities for handling of cargo. PPT chairman D Jagannath Rao recently held discussions with Posco-India CMD in this regard who has reportedly assured  to consider the proposal.

Questions were raised about the necessity of setting up another port only ten kilometre away from the existing port at Paradip. The Meena Gupta committe appointed by the MoEF too had raised serious questions about its impact on environment and ecology.