This has been done to save on
shipping costs as the entity looks at innovative ways as a pivot to boost
business, a release from the Paradip
Port Authority (PPA) said here on Wednesday. Paradip Port Chairman P.L. Haranadh and
Dy.Chairman Nilabhra
Dasgupta have congratulated Team PPA for this stupendous
achievement.
A symbolic cake
cutting was done by the Chairman, PPA to celebrate the success. Ship to ship (STS) is a critical operation carried out in the absence
of shore reception and enables transfer of cargo seamlessly crossing the
difficulties.
In Paradip Port,
the flexibility of doing STS both at outside anchorage and within harbour is
explored as due to unfavorable weather conditions at anchorage, the STS was
done inside Harbour. This has opened new dimensions in the operability of
the Port and added yet another feather in the cap. All these were done by
in-house Pilot of PPA supported by Marine and Traffic teams.