Ports, Airports

The massive MSC Irina, with a length of 399.9 metres, width of 61.3 metres and capacity of 24,346 TEUs – four times longer than a standard FIFA-designated football field – docked at the Vizhinjam International Seaport early June this year on her maiden visit to a South Asian port. A record of sorts, as no other Indian port could have ...

Mumbai’s new integrated, state-of-the-art Terminal 2 at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) was inaugurated on January 10 by the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh in the presence of the Governor of Maharashtra, K. Shankarnarayanan, the Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Prithviraj Chavan and other dignitaries. Spread over an area of 4.4 million sqft, the new terminal features a highly compact design ...

By April 2013, Sikkim will have its first airport in the mountainous town of Pakyong. A Greenfield project, the airport will be situated at 5577 feet and at 80.38 metres, will be home to one of the tallest reinforced walls of the world. Vidyottama Sharma reports.