In an attempt to build the first phase of dry port at Sindi Railway in district Wardha of Maharashtra, the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) would be floating tender this month itself Neeraj Bansal, deputy chairman, said adding that the project would be built on public private partnership (PPP) mode. JNPT is building four dry ports in the state — Wardha, Jalna, Nasik and Sangli and the first phase of dry port is spread over an area of 82 acre housing warehouses, cold storages, customs offices, rail siding, truck terminal. In the next phase the dry port will be expanded and for the third an industrial zone spread over 124 acre will be set up so that industries can take advantage of the dry port. The dry port-cum-industrial zone spreading over an area of 350 acre and that the trust has acquired the entire land and currently a compound wall is being built around it.
