Brief Summary of the Project Kandla Port is the busiest port of India and serves as the gateway for the trade generating from/to the entire Northern India. In the terms of cargo handling, Kandla Port has achieved the first position among all the Major Ports of India, in most of the years in last decade. To enhance the cargo handling capacity and to handle bigger size vessels, Kandla Port has long been focussing on various measures like adding the new facilities, strengthening the existing facilities, etc. It is submitted that since the starting of KPT, Signal and Navigational Aid (SNA) Section and Port Craft Parking jetty have been operated from the Bunder Basin Area. These structures were badly damaged in the cyclone of 1998 and the Earthquake of 2001. This necessitated re-location of SNA section and Port Craft Jetty from the safety point of view and also for smooth functioning of port operations. SNA jetty is primarily meant for parking of port crafts and no cargo handling activity is carried out at this facility The proposed project is Development of integrated facilities (Stage I) within the existing Kandla Port trust at Gandhidham, Kutch, Gujarat. The project has the following facilities :- Setting up of Container Terminal at Tuna-Tekra, Kandla Port on BOT Basis under PPP Model Providing Railway Lines from NH 8A to Tuna port Construction of Port Craft Jetty & Shifting of SNA Section at Kandla Port. Site location was selected basis the study reports made available to us e.g. numerical modeling studies, geo-tech investigation reports, hydraulic model studies, wave and tidal data. Depth contours were identified to build the terminal so as to make it viable from both technical and financial perspectives. The Kandla Port has set up barge handling facility at Tuna (Outside Kandla Creek) for evacuation of cargo from such vessels by lighterage through barges. Further, the existing barge jetty with berth length 240 Mtrs. is being extended by 600 Mtrs (500 mtr through BOT project and 100 mtr through captive project) to augment the handling capacity of dry cargo. The Pontoon jetty is located after the approach jetty on the left side on north. The overall size of this jetty is 114.95 x 12 m. the dredge level at face of this jetty is taken as -10.35m. It is proposed to have 17 rows of R.C.C Bored cast-in-situ 1000mm diameter piles in the longitiudinal directions and 3 rows in the transverse direction. In longitudinal direction the spacing is 7m. the spacing in the transverse direction is 5m with a cantilever projection of 1m on both sides. The piles are connected with main beams (1300 x 1450mm) in the transverse direction and longitunal beam (600 x 850mm) in longitudinal direction. Secondary beam of 600 x 850mm is proposed in between longitunal beams to reduce the span of slabs. Pile muff shall be of size 1500 x 1500 x 400mm. the slab thickness proposed is 250mm. The top level of the deck shall be +9.14m (including 100mm thick wearing coat). .