Highlights :

• Enhancing Gujarat s Share in EXIM Sector
• Decongesting the overburden on existing ports on the western coast through efficient facilities and services to support the domestic and international trade
• Developing / upgrading port facilities at 10 locations
• Targetting to handle 100 mln. tonnes of cargo accounting for 25% of national volume by 2000 AD
• Providing port facilities to promote export-oriented industries and port-based industries entailing almost 50% of total industrial investment
• Encouraging shipbuilding, ship repairing and manufacturing facilities for cranes, dredgers and floating crafts
• Promoting coastal shipping for passengers and cargo traffic between various locations within the state and important places outside the state
• Supporting power plants by offering exclusive facilities for import of different power fuels
• Attracting private sector investment in minor and intermediate ports as also at the new port locations