{"id":11154,"date":"2023-05-22T09:29:02","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T03:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=11154"},"modified":"2025-03-30T00:52:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T19:22:17","slug":"machilipatnam-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/machilipatnam-port\/","title":{"rendered":"Machilipatnam Port"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Machilipatnam Port:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Location<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>It is a proposed <strong>deep sea port on the coast of Bay of Bengal<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is located <strong>at Machilipatnam<\/strong>, the District Headquarters of <strong>Krishna district in Andhra Pradesh.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The port is <strong>developed by the State Government<\/strong> under the landlord model at a <strong>cost of Rs 5,156 crore.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The project is being <strong>implemented by Machilipatnam Port Development Corporation Limited (MPDCL)<\/strong>, a <strong>special purpose vehicle<\/strong> floated by the State government.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The port is expected to have a <strong>capacity of 35 million tonnes in phase one<\/strong>, <strong>with four berths<\/strong>, including three general berths and one for coal.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It would <strong>cater<\/strong> <strong>to exports of fertilizers, coal, cooking oil, containers<\/strong>, agricultural products, cement, granite, cement clinker, iron <strong>ore from Andhra Pradesh and neighbouring Telangana.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What is Landlord Port Model?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>In this model, <strong>the publicly governed port authority acts as a regulatory body<\/strong> <strong>and as landlord<\/strong> while <strong>private companies carry out port operations<\/strong>\u2014mainly cargo-handling activities.<\/li>\n<li>Here, the <strong>port authority maintains ownership of the port<\/strong> while the <strong>infrastructure is leased to private firms<\/strong> that provide and maintain their own superstructure and install their own equipment to handle cargo.<\/li>\n<li>In return, the <strong>landlord port gets a share of the revenue from the private entity.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What are deep water ports?<\/h3>\n<p>A deepwater port is a fixed or floating man-made structure, or a group of structures, other than a vessel, located beyond State seaward boundaries and used or intended for use as a port or terminal for the transportation, storage, and further handling of oil or natural gas for transportation to or from any State.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/andhra-pradesh\/jagan-to-inaugurate-machilipatnam-port-construction-works-on-monday\/article66877800.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Jagan to inaugurate Machilipatnam port construction works on Monday<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Machilipatnam Port is a proposed deep sea port on the coast of Bay of Bengal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}