Nissan First Automaker to Use Ennore Port in India for Exports
18 October 2008
Nissan Motor India Private Limited (NMIPL) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Ennore Port Ltd (EPL) to export its vehicles through Ennore Port in Tamil Nadu. NMIPL, the Indian affiliate of Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., will be the first automaker to utilize this eastern gateway port of India as an export base.
EPL will complete development of a berth with space of 140,000 m2 for vehicles by the end of June 2010 and give NMIPL priority to use the newly developed marine facilities. NMIPL will begin exporting vehicles, primarily to Europe, commencing the second half of 2010. Exports are expected to be approximately 110,000 units in fiscal year 2011 and grow to 180,000 units in the future. Exports will include models, such as the next generation of Micra, which will be built on Nissan’s new A-platform.
The development of a competitive A-platform is one of several developments announced as part of Nissan GT 2012, the company’s new five-year business plan. India is one of the five leading competitive countries (LCCs) to produce and export the new A-platform models in Nissan’s global manufacturing network. Models will be available in the local market as well.
Ennore Port is a greenfield development about 20 km north of Chennai port, commissioned in June 2001. It was originally conceived to be a satellite port to the Chennai port, primarily to handle coal for the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB). Coal and iron ore are currently the dominant cargoes sipped through the port. It is an artificial deep-sea harbor comprising of two rubble mound type breakwaters with concrete capping. The South breakwater of 1,070 m in length and North breakwater of 3080 m in length created a protected port basin of 220 ha in area.
It is now time for world trade to slow down. Large parts of North America and Europe have very strict environmental and safety laws as well as taxes for all kinds of social sevices levied on the employers and employees. The employees and employers in many other countries are not burdened with these costs, so factories are set up in these countries even by corporations of foreign countries to use these advantages to make and sell goods to yet other countries.
Free trade has turned out to be a way to export pollution and jobs and unsafe working conditions and child labor. The EU requires lead-free circuits, but has not forbiden the use of tobacco containing products which causes far more injury to society. The US has just lowered the allowable amount of lead in the air by a factor of ten but also has not forbiden the production of tobacco.
Many people have probably met their demise early because of hospital induced infections that could have been prevented by the use of the forbidden mercury containing thimersol on antibiotic resistant bacterial infections as well as virus infections. Mercury is far more widespread now with CFLs than it ever was with thermometers. It was fun to watch the mercury roll back and forth in the tubes in the East Berlin S-Bahn.
If every person in the world were able to and forced to drink water out of lead pipes, there would be far fewer illnesses leading to early demise. The elimination of an element that has a fatal or damaging effect when used improperly, deprives society of the beneficial uses when used properly. These two must be balanced.
Helen Keller wrote: "Security is a superstition. Bye and large the children of men do not experience security." When these cars enter the EU what has been exported?? but ?? ..HG..
Posted by: Henry Gibson | 19 October 2008 at 01:56 AM