In 2022, the company beat Adani Group to win
the bid for the Rs
1,424 crore project on 184.27 acres of land in Tiruvallur
district. The project aims to facilitate efficient, cost-effective and
value-added logistics services such as cargo aggregation and disaggregation,
distribution, intermodal transfer, sorting, packing, and repacking. However, it
did not take off due to the poor response from the private sector on issues
like connectivity.
In
2022, the Centre awarded the contract to Reliance with Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi
laying the foundation stone on May 26, 2022.
However, many issues, including road access to local villages, delayed the
start of the construction. All these have been sorted, and the construction is
to start in June, they said.
In October 2021, a Memorandum of Understanding was
signed among Tamil
Nadu Industrial Development
Corporation, National Highways Logistics Management Limited and the Chennai
Port Trust.
It is located 52 km from the Chennai Port, 80 km from
Ennore Port and 87 km from Kattupalli Port. It will be a focal point of
logistics in the southern region. It is estimated to cater to around 7.17
million tonnes (mt) of cargo over 45 years.
According to a pre-feasibility report, the project
will also serve as secondary market clusters in Ranipet, Ambur, Tirupur, and
Bengaluru, which are home to industries like leather, heavy machinery parts,
automobiles, cement, sugar and chemicals.
The project is also near the automobile and
electronics manufacturing clusters on the Sriperumbudur-Oragadam industrial
belt and near Chennai Peripheral Ring Road. However, the project’s success will depend on rail connectivity from
Mappedu to the ports, said sources.