Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, started the country's first container cargo service in Varanasi with Ramnagar harbor. This port is built on the Ganges river under the Haldia-Varanasi Water Transport Service. After 36 years, the country's first water transport project took shape. 1620 km long Varanasi-Haldia Inland Water Highway is inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

According to officials of the Inland Waterways Authority, this project will accelerate the business activities of five states and the work of transportation of five hundred to two thousand tonnes of goods can be done through water transport. This will reduce sound and air pollution and provide new employment opportunities.

In 1982, during the Indira Gandhi government, the Ministry of Water Transport started work on the scheme. But the work on this project was stopped. Work on this began with renewal in 2014 and after four years, container cargo is going to start for the first time in the country. For this project, the Central Government has taken help of around Rs. 5700 crore from World Bank. In the first phase of the plan, work of making ports is going on in five locations including Banaras, Sahebganj. According to Praveer Pandey, vice chairman of Inland Water Authority, the work of the first phase is almost complete. In the coming days, container cargo of 1500 to 2 thousand tonnes will be operated.

Haldia-Varanasi Waterway Project Trial in 2016. Then there was a consignment of car and building materials from two cargo ships. After this, now on 12th November, at the port located in Ralhupur, reached the product of multinational company.

By passing more than 13 hundred kilometers from Haldia, the shipping cargo carrying five hundred tonnes of goods has reached Banaras on Friday. The goods of a multinational company were carved on this cargo. The motivation behind this is to bring this new water transportation route to the world globally so that more and more multinational companies show interest in this commercial transport rather than encourage them for this. This waterway is being transported 20 tonnes of goods, 1318 kilometers in only 15 thousand.

On Saturday, the German crane was rehearsed to unload the dummy container. On one side there was rehearsal, at the same time the stir in the crew members in the huge cargo tagore on the waves of the Ganga river. During unloading all the necessary procedures were repetitive.

Special things
- The business activities of many states will be sharp with the Banaras-Haldia waterway.
- Pollution will be less and safe goods will be available.
- Transporting six hundred tonnes of merchandise at cheap rates instead of road.
- Wear house, cold storage, packaging-wrapping, cargo storage, road transport service will be available as the main junction of road highway and freight village will be created.
- Five hundred tonnes of cargo ships will go on seeing the water level of Ganga right now
- Dredging starts at low water level places between Varanasi and Patna
- In the future, preparing to run two thousand tonnes of ships

Port at Ramnagar at a glance
- Work started on Multimodal terminal: Year 2014
- Haldia-Varanasi Project Trial: Year 2016
- Cargo reached for the first time with 16 containers: November 9, 2018
- Port length of jetty: 200 meters, width is 42 meters
- 02 mobile harbor crane on jetty
- approach way, inner route

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