Location
India / Asia Pacific
Project record
Kandla Multipurpose Cargo Berth No. 17
DPA appointed IIT Madras on a nomination basis to prepare the DPR for Multipurpose Cargo Berth No. 17 at Kandla. The 12 March 2025 work order set INR 15 million plus GST and an 18 March start. Scope covers field review, CWPRS modelling, berth and approach design, heavy-cargo handling, dredging, reclamation, mooring, back-up yard, utilities, quantities and estimates. Later DPA records still place the project in owner-side development; no construction or PPP award is public.
Segment
Port infrastructure
Status
DPR work started in March 2025; no construction RFP, PPP award, concessionaire or works contractor is verified / Confirmed
Last checked
1 August 2026
Coverage
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Port infrastructure is the primary work classification. Related sectors connect this record to adjacent marine delivery and market coverage.
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Project anatomy
Contract scope and delivery roles
- Client / authority
- Deendayal Port Authority
- Delivery parties
- Indian Institute of Technology Madras - DPR consultant; principal investigator S Nallayarasu, Construction concessionaire or works contractor - no RFP or award verified by 1 August 2026
- Contract route
- DPA appointed IIT Madras on a nomination basis for the DPR. A later DPA technical-adviser tender listed development of Berth 17 on PPP mode among projects under approval, but that indicative list is not a PPP tender or concession award. Downstream procurement remains open.
- Execution window
- DPA directed the consultancy to start on 18 March 2025. IIT Madras records project IC24251616OEDEEN008228 from 13 March to 12 September 2025. The ledger close date belongs to the consultancy record and does not prove owner acceptance of the DPR or completion of any construction.
- Works package
- Prepare the inception and preliminary reports; collect field and soil data; assess wave, current and wind conditions; support final berth and back-up-yard siting; review borehole data; develop the CWPRS mathematical and siltation model; select jetty and approach arrangements for vessels carrying large wind-turbine and other cargo; evaluate mobile, rail-mounted and other heavy-cargo equipment; design marine structures, reclamation, shore protection, dredging layout, mooring, fire-fighting, utilities, berth systems and back-up yard; and prepare drawings, bills of quantities and estimates.
- Marine interfaces
- The project must connect a new cargo berth and approach to Kandla's working creek environment. Bathymetry, sedimentation, berth geometry, manoeuvring, dredging, reclamation, shore protection, geotechnical design, mooring loads, fenders, bollards, utilities and heavy-cargo transfer all sit inside the DPR boundary. DPA's work order says it will approach CWPRS for the mathematical study with berth data and drawings supplied by IIT Madras.
- Commercial evidence boundary
- DPA's accepted consultancy fee is INR 15 million plus GST. IIT Madras records a sanctioned value of INR 17.7 million for the same project, which appears to reflect the fee with tax rather than a different construction package. Neither amount is berth-construction capex, a PPP investment commitment or an awarded works price.
Project timeline
Material developments
Dated events that changed scope, counterparties, delivery, commissioning or operating status.
Open this project in the Change LogThe DPR assignment entered its instructed work period
IIT Madras began the owner-side engineering phase covering site appraisal, modelling, marine structures, dredging, reclamation, berth systems and cost preparation. Construction procurement remained outside the appointment.
SourceDPA issued the IIT Madras DPR work order
The nomination-basis appointment fixed an INR 15 million fee plus GST and defined the engineering package, while leaving the eventual PPP or works route, contractor and construction price open.
SourceEvidence gap
What remains unverified
Outstanding evidence
- DPR acceptance and publication of the preferred berth and back-up-yard layout
- CWPRS mathematical model, siltation study and resulting navigation assumptions
- Environmental and coastal-regulation approvals for dredging, reclamation and shore protection
- Issued PPP, concession or works procurement and its package boundary
- Successful concessionaire or contractor, accepted price and notice to proceed
- Jetty, approach, piling, deck, fender, bollard and utility quantities
- Dredging, reclamation, disposal, ground and shore-protection packages
- Heavy-cargo and wind-turbine handling equipment and operating criteria
- Hydrographic, structural and operational acceptance before vessel service
Sources and related records
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Source collections
Project sources 5
- Work order for DPR of Multipurpose Cargo Berth No. 17 at Kandla Deendayal Port Authority, 12 March 2025
- Ongoing consultancy projects as of 31 March 2025 Indian Institute of Technology Madras, 31 March 2025
- Budget estimates 2025-26 and revised estimates 2024-25 Deendayal Port Authority, 18 December 2024
- Tender for transaction and technical adviser for port PPP projects Deendayal Port Authority, 2 April 2025
- Budgetary offer for transactional legal consultancy Deendayal Port Authority, March 2026