Parking, godowns and other infrastructure are being constructed at the dry port with the help of the World Bank.
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Infrastructure is being expanded at the integrated security check post at Birganj and the Sirsia dry port, which contributes more than half of the country's import and export trade.
Infrastructure is being expanded at the check post with World Bank loan support. In the dry port, the World Bank and the Intermodal Transport Development Committee are going to expand the infrastructure with their own investment.
Ashish Gajurel, executive director of the Intermodal Transport Development Committee, informed that under the strategic road network project of the World Bank, infrastructure expansion is being done in ICP. Work has already started here from July 24. 40,000 square meter parking lot, godown, check road and Dharmakanta are being constructed.
This is the World Bank's soft loan or loan assistance project. Two decades ago, the World Bank also invested in the construction of the port. Gajurel said that the company of BKOI/PR/Nav Kantipur Joint Venture got the contract for the construction of these infrastructures at the port for 398 million rupees.
Sirsia Dry Port, which has been operating since 2004, is the first and largest dry port of Nepal. Spread over an area of 38 hectares, the maximum capacity of this port is 1,586 containers. But due to the obligation to always manage more containers than the capacity, port management companies have been facing problems.
This port, which is connected to the Indian railway network, imports and exports goods through Kolkata, Haldia and Visakhapatnam ports in India. Sugar, chemical fertilizers, iron, coal etc. are also imported from India.
The Intermodal Transport Development Committee has given the responsibility of operating this port to the private sector. This port, which was operated by Himalayan Terminal Company for the first decade and a half, is currently operated by Pristine Valley Company. This company has also got the contract for the operation of the port for the next 5 years.
The World Bank has invested in the construction of a 10,000 square meter loose cargo parking yard at the dry port. It will have a surface slope of 1,100 meters long and 25 meters wide.
In addition, crankkit will be installed between the 3rd and 5th railway lines. In addition, a rest room and toilet for drivers, a 120 ton capacity dharmakanta will also be constructed. This contract costing 192.2 million rupees has been awarded to the company of Brother/Renians Joint Venture.
Birgunj Chamber of Commerce and Industry President Hari Gautam ICP and with increasing busyness of the dry port, Yin's He says that it is necessary to expand the area and add infrastructure. He said that the land acquisition process of 62 bighas between the currently closed port and the Integrated Security Check Post should be completed immediately and the area of both the port and the post should be expanded.
