Posted on 08 Dec 2006
The Vizhinjam port project is hanging fire for over six months after the Centre refused to clear the project due the presence of two Chinese companies in a three-member consortium that won the tender.
Achuthanandan had led an all-party...
Posted on 05 Dec 2006
The Chief Minister said an all-party meeting would be convened to discuss the future course of action on the proposed Vizhinjam International Transhipment Terminal.
Posted on 30 Nov 2006
Fresh global tenders will be invited for the Vizhinjam trans shipment project in view of the centre's rejection of security clearance to the Chinese firm short listed in the previous bid.
Talking to media here, Kerala law Minister M Vijayakumar...
Posted on 25 Nov 2006
"The issue (allowing Chinese participation at Vizhinjam) is being taken up at the highest level. But, it will be the Prime Ministers' Office which will have the last word on the issue," M Vijayakumar, Kerala law and shipping minister said.
His...
Posted on 28 Nov 2006
Leaving its leaders in Delhi to seek a level-playing field for Chinese firms entering the country, the CPM-led LDF government in Kerala has had a rethink on awarding the contract of a major project to a Chinese consortium.
In fact, the LDF...
Posted on 01 Sep 2006
The City Corporation Council on Friday accused the UPA Government at the Centre of trying to torpedo the Vizhinjam container transhipment terminal project. A resolution adopted by the council said the Ministry of Shipping had tried to scuttle the...
Posted on 27 Nov 2006
After Chinese premier Hu Jintao made no mention about the Rs 4,360-crore Vizhinjam port in Kerala, chief minister VS Achuthananthan has decided to take up the issue in New Delhi next week. The development of the port hit a roadblock after the...
Posted on 01 Nov 2006
Our government will also render all possible assistance for the development of Vizhinjam harbour. (Prime Ministers' speech on 1st November 2006 at Thiruvananthapuram)
Posted on 02 Nov 2006
Supporters of Janapaksham, a people's movement, staged a daylong protest hunger strike Wednesday about 100 meters from the venue where Prime Minister Manmohan Singh took part in a foundation stone laying ceremony here.
The protest was to draw the...
Posted on 02 Nov 2006
The Thiruvananthapuram District Congress Committee has in a memorandum requested Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to grant security clearance for setting up an International Trans-shipment Terminal at Vizhinjam.
Posted on 28 Oct 2006
The Trivandrum Residents Apex Council (TRAC) on Thursday began a 24-hour hunger strike in front of the General Post Office urging the Government to approve the construction of an international deepwater container transhipment terminal at Vizhinjam....
Posted on 24 Oct 2006
The Capital City Development Forum has urged the State Government to find a speedy resolution to the problems that have bogged down the project for an international deepwater container transhipment terminal at Vizhinjam.
A meeting of the forum...
Posted on 30 Oct 2006
The Federation of Residents Associations, Thiruvananthapuram (FRAT) is organising a mass signature campaign all over the district on Friday and Saturday for the Vizhinjam container transhipment terminal.
FRAT president T.K. Bhaskara Panicker,...
Posted on 18 Oct 2006
Last month, Communist Party of India-Marxist general secretary Prakash Karat came out with an request: allow Chinese FDI into the Rs 4,360 crore (Rs 43.60 billion) Vizhinjam Deep Water International Transhipment Terminal in Kerala.
Vizhinjam Deep...
