"We will design, construct and develop our own captive riverine jetty at Haldia to meet our export import throughput requirement," says Mr B. Muthuraman, Managing Director of Tata Steel, in a letter to the Chairman of Kolkata Port Trust.
Jetty features

The letter also explains the kind of facility Tata Steel would like to have. The location of the jetty should be outside the lockgate but not far from the existing oil jetties on the riverfront.

The proposed jetty will primarily handle clean cargo and have the final capacity of two million tonnes (mt) annually. The draft of the Hooghly river at the jetty should be the same as that at present.

There should be an open back up storage space of 15 acres with a railway siding of 800 metres. The cost of the project complete with two mobile harbour cranes and back up area has been estimated at Rs 100 crore.

To finish project in 2 yrs Setting the time limit for the project, the Tata Steel Managing Director has expressed his desire to have the jetty commissioned on September 1, 2009, exactly two years from now. The plan is to sign the concession agreement by May 2008, start construction of the jetty and development of backup facilities by September next year and complete construction and installation of equipment by August 2009.