{"id":4975,"date":"2016-05-18T15:40:37","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T15:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/?p=4975"},"modified":"2016-05-31T12:18:26","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T12:18:26","slug":"18th-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/?p=4975","title":{"rendered":"Helmsman, who turned around a port, takes a bow"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Paul Antony leaves the Cochin Port Trust with an operating surplus of Rs.70 crore in 2015-16.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Paul Antony, who steered the course of the Cochin Port Trust through a phase of great financial troubles, completed his tenure at the helm on Monday.<\/p>\n

The government is yet to appoint a new chairman though unconfirmed reports said a senior IAS cadre officer in the State was tipped to take over.<\/p>\n

The outgoing chairman will join the government of Kerala at the end of May as Additional Chief Secretary after the new government takes over, sources said.<\/p>\n

Crucial period<\/b><\/p>\n

Mr. Antony, who was in-charge of the Port Trust for more than five years, assumed office at the crucial period immediately after the inauguration of the International Container Transshipment Terminal in February 2011.<\/p>\n

The outgoing chairman thanked his former colleagues for the work they had done together even as he pointed out that the port itself had gone through a transformation internally with ERP being firmly established in all areas of the port\u2019s operations.<\/p>\n

Austerity measures<\/b><\/p>\n

He recalled that the port had gone through a period of \u201ctough austerity measures\u201d with even benefits to employees and pensioners being restricted for a few months. \u201cBut we have come out stronger, with the whole-hearted cooperation of the employees and their unions\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n

He added that all the arrears to the employees had been paid.<\/p>\n

Mr. Antony leaves the Port Trust with an operating surplus of Rs.70 crore in 2015-16, the highest since 1979-80. The port authority\u2019s marketing initiatives under Mr. Antony also saw the ICTT crossing the four-lakh TEU-mark in 2015-16. The facility has come under fire for not achieving the target set for the first phase.<\/p>\n

The period also saw the port authority beginning work on the Rs. 970-crore international ship repair facility jointly with the Cochin Shipyard using the Mattancherry wharf.<\/p>\n

Work on the Rs. 240-crore multi-user-liquid terminal with a capacity to handle 4.1 million metric tonnes per annum in conjunction with IOC on Puthuvypeen island is underway.<\/p>\n

source: http:\/\/www.thehindu.com \/ The Hindu \/ Home> News> Cities> Kochi \/ by Special Correspondent \/ Kochi – May 18th, 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paul Antony, who steered the course of the Cochin Port Trust through a phase of great financial troubles, completed his tenure at the helm on Monday. The government is yet to appoint a new chairman though unconfirmed reports said a senior IAS cadre officer in the State was tipped to take over. The outgoing chairman … Continue reading Helmsman, who turned around a port, takes a bow<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-economy","category-leaders"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4975"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5079,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4975\/revisions\/5079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}