Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has directed officials to complete Phase-1 works on the Machilipatnam, Ramayapatnam, and Mulapeta ports and the Kakinada Gateway Port by December next year.
Naidu also instructed them to complete phase -1 construction for the Juvvaladinne, Nizampatnam, Machilipatnam, and Uppada fishing harbours within the same timeframe.
In a review meeting held in Amaravati on Tuesday, the Chief Minister said ports and fishing harbours were `valuable’ economic assets for the State and should be operationalised swiftly. The State government was also planning to establish logistics corporation, he added.
About 43 per cent of the construction of Machilipatnam Port has been completed and is expected to be completed fully by November next year, while works of Phase-1 of Ramayapatnam Port now stand at 64 per cent. The works of Mulapeta Port and Kakinada Gateway Port are completed at 46 per cent and 29 per cent, respectively;
The government will initiate phase 1 works for new airports in Kuppam, Dagadarthi, Amaravati, and Srikakulam and expansion of state roads in accordance with traffic requirements, integrating them with national highways through a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) mode.