The Centre is likely to lower the number of entry barriers in tenders floated for shipbuilding clusters across major ports, a top government official told Business Standard.
This comes after Gujarat’s Deendayal Port Authority (DPA), also known as the Kandla port, received only one bid for its 2,000 acre shipbuilding cluster — which the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways considered underwhelming.
The DPA is one of the 12 ports owned by the Centre.