Steel Minister flags off coastal shipping of RINL
Union Steel Minister Chaudhary Birender Singh will flag off maiden Coastal Shipping of RINL-Vizag Steel products at Visakhapatnam Port Trust on Wednesday.
Visakhapatnam: Union Steel Minister Chaudhary Birender Singh will flag off maiden Coastal Shipping of RINL-Vizag Steel products at Visakhapatnam Port Trust on Wednesday. The project will be executed by a private consortium to haul 2.25 lakh tonnes of VSP products to Ahmedabad, Kochi and Mumbai. The RINL is foraying into sea trade for the first time under the Sagarmala project initiated by the Central government.
The Minister will also commission the newly built Turbo Blower-5 on the Thermal Power Plant premises. This is a standby Turbo Blower to ensure uninterrupted supply of Cold Blast to Blast Furnace-3. Birender Singh will inaugurate the badminton coaching camp and felicitate Vizag Steel brand ambassador PV Sindhu at Multi-Purpose Hall in Ukkunagaram on Wednesday. Later, the Minister will review the performance of RINL and will hold discussions with the top management headed by CMD of RINL P Madhusudan.
The Minister arriving on Tuesday night at Visakhapatnam accompanied by Additional Secretary and Financial Adviser Saraswati Prasad, Joint Secretary Ruchika Chaudhry Govil and Director of Ministry of Steel Neeraj Agarwal.
