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KMEW’s Inland Waterway Maiden Voyage: Embarking on New Waters
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], March 12: Knowledge Marine & Engineering Works Ltd has received the Letter of Award (LoA) from the Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) for the maintenance of the “Farakka-Kahalgaon stretch (146 Km) of National Waterway – 1 (River Ganga)”. The contract, valued at Rs. 98.06 Crores. The contract duration is 3 years [...]
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], March 12: Knowledge Marine & Engineering Works Ltd has received the Letter of Award (LoA) from the Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) for the maintenance of the “Farakka-Kahalgaon stretch (146 Km) of National Waterway – 1 (River Ganga)”. The contract, valued at Rs. 98.06 Crores. The contract duration is 3 years and further extendable by 2 more years.
To promote Inland Water Transport (IWT) in the country, 111 Inland National Waterways (NWs) have been officially notified in India for the purposes of inland water transport as per The National Waterways Act, 2016. Out of the 111 NWs, 106 were created in 2016. The NW network covers around 20,275.5 km. NW-1, 2, & 3 are already operational. Cargo as well as passenger / cruise vessels are plying on these waterways.
India has about 20,275.5 kms of navigable waterways which comprise of rivers, canals, backwaters, creeks, etc. About 126 Million Metric Tonnes (MMT) of cargo is being moved annually by Inland Water Transport (IWT), a fuel – efficient and environment – friendly mode. Its operations are currently restricted to a few stretches in the Ganga-BhagirathiHooghly rivers, the Brahmaputra, the Barak River, the rivers in Goa, the backwaters in Kerala, inland waters in Mumbai and the deltaic regions of the Godavari – Krishna rivers. Besides these organized operations by mechanized vessels, country boats of various capacities also operate in various rivers and canals. and substantial quantum of cargo and passengers are transported in this unorganized sector as well.
