National Waterway 1 (NW1)

National Waterway 1 (NW1). 1. The Basic Course provides an introduction to Inland Waterway Transport for Inland Vessel Start Lesson.

OVERVIEW. Elements of Inland Waterway Transportation Enablers of the IWT Sector Facilitators of the IWT Sector National Waterway 1.

Elements of Inland Waterway Transportation. 3.

FAIRWAY DEVELOPMENT. DREDGING. CORRECTION OF BEND.

TERMINAL. BOREHOLE STUDY. JETTY CONSTRUCTION. TERMINAL EQUIPMENT.

Dredging. Maintaining existing waterways: Dredging is an important step in waterway maintenance. By removing the accumulated debris, dredging can restore the waterway to its original depth and condition. Dredging also removes dead vegetation, pollutants and trash that have gathered in these areas. Creating new waterways: Many ports are building new waterways with dredging to reach new trade centers and improve the efficiency of transporting goods. Dredging ensures cargo vessels of all sizes can dock and do not run aground. Increasing waterway depth: As sediment builds up on the bottom of the waterway, it reduces the depth of the water. Dredging strips away the accumulated debris, which can restore the water body to its original depth and reduce the risk of flooding. Cleaning ponds and lagoons: Ponds and lagoons contain stagnant water, often can become mucky and have a foul odor. By using dredging, one can remove the accumulated sediment that has caused this making for a healthier body of water..

Aids to navigation. The term "aids to navigation" includes buoys, day beacons, lights, lightships, radio beacons, fog signals, marks and other devices used to provide "street" signs on the water. Aids To Navigation include all the visible, audible and electronic symbols that are established by government and private authorities for piloting purposes. Day channel marking is being provided across entire stretch from Haldia to Allahabad to facilitate round the year navigation. Night navigation aids between Haldia – Ballia (1140 km) stretch have also been provided through a system comprising of light - fitted country boats / bamboo structures, MS poles and Trestle beacon towers to facilitate round the clock navigation..

8. Day Right Hand Mark. Light on Country Boat. Light on Steel Pole.

VESSEL. 9. Inland tourist vessels – RV Bengal Ganga, Ganga Voyager-I and Ganga Voyager-II of M/s Heritage River Cruise Pvt. Ltd., ABN Rajmahal & ABN Sukapha of M/s Assam Bengal Navigation Co. Pvt. Ltd. are plying on NW-1 in the State of West Bengal, Jharkhand, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh since many years on an increasing trend. The movements of these tourist vessels with foreign tourists were continued during 2017-18 and completed their commercial trips successfully as per schedule. One hundred seven (107) no. to & fro voyages between Kolkata to Hazardwari/ Farakka & six (06) no. to & fro voyages between Kolkata to Bateshwarsthan/ Munger/ Patna has been performed by these tourist vessels..

ENABLERS OF INLAND WATERWAY TRANSPORTATION. 10.

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Inland Vessels. Inland Vessel (I.V.). I.V. Act. I.V. Construction.

Procedure for Registration of Inland Vessel. Intention to build Purpose GA Plan, Structural Drwg. Machinery, Electricals, and Propulsion Stress, Free board and Stability.

Procedure for Construction & Survey of Inland Vessels (MR).

Type of Inland Vessels. All Inland Vessel Constructed for Operating/Operating in Zone 1.

Operational Zones for Inland Vessels. National Waterway 1 Ganga - Bhagirathi -Hooghly River System National Waterway No. I Ghaghra R Uttar Pradesh Gang Ghazipur • Varanasi • Son R NE PA Gandak R. Yamuna R. Kosi R. Munger Bhagalpur ikki ad Madhya Pradesh itiaf,j e' zone-3 Orissa Oerha pur • agirathi River West Bengal Kolkata Bhutan R. s • IWT Permanent Terminals National Waterway No. I Rivers Copyright (c) Compare Infobase Pvt. Ltd. Maps of India 2001-02 oogly River Bay of Bengal Zone-I.

Facilitators of IWT Sector. 19.

Facilitators of IWT Sector. Cargo Waterways Terminals Vessels Facilitators — Importers — Exporters — Traders —PSU's etc. — IWAI, IWT Dept. State —Dredge Owners — Surveyors — Facility owner (cranes etc) — Stevedores (cargo handling) — Intermodal Connectivity — Owners — Charterers — Ship Management — Regulators (State IWT) — Class. Society (IRS,BNV) —Shipyards & Repair Yards — Financers.

National Waterway-1. 21.

NATIONAL WATERWAYS. 22. To promote Inland Water Transport (IWT) in the country, 111 waterways (including 5 existing and 106 new) have been declared as National Waterways (NWs) under the National Waterways Act, 2016 which came into effect from 12th April, 2016..

National Waterway 1 (NW1). 23. The National Waterway 1 or Ganga – Bhagirathi – Hooghly river system is located in India and runs from Pyagraj in Uttar Pradesh to Haldia in West Bengal via Patna and Bhagalpur in Bihar & Sahebganj, Jharkhand..

Shifting of Ammonia Pipeline. Major Achievements – Multimodal Terminal –.

New Navigational Lock – Farakka. Survey Work in Progress.

Key Interventions–Ro-RoTerminals. Buxar - Saraikota.

Key Interventions – River Information System. Objective – To provide harmonized information to all vessels & fisherman community for safe and efficient inland navigation To be implemented in 3 Phases with base stations & control stations: Phase 1: Haldia – Farakka (Functional) Phase 2: Farakka – Patna (Under Testing) Phase 3: Patna – Varanasi (Under Construction, equipment delivered).

CARGO MOVEMENTS. The transportation of Coal for NTPC Power Plant is being undertaken since November 2013 from sand heads (Bay of Bengal) to Farakka through National Waterway–1. During FY 2017-18 about 1.60 lakh tons of imported Coal (upto July, 2017) has been transported successfully by M/s Jindal ITF Ltd. using the barges of 1500 – 2000 tons capacity. Moreover, about 30 lakh tons cargo comprising of fly ash, food grains & general cargo moved between India and Bangladesh through National Waterway - 1 and Indo-Bangladesh Protocol Route under Inland Water Transit & Trade. In addition, the trial movement of 240 tons of bagged cement from Kolaghat located on river Rupnarayan (NW-87) to Bhagalpur on river Ganga (NW-1) and 300 tons of bagged fly ash from Kahalgaon (NW-1) to Kolaghat of M/s Dalmia Bharat Cements has been done by IWAI’s shallow draft cargo vessel MV VV Giri under consultancy services for plan and implementation support for commercialization of NW-1..

TERMINAL FACILITIES. The low level and high level jetties at Gaighat, Patna (Bihar) are operational since 2008 and 2012 respectively which are capable of mechanical handling of cargo. Bunkering facility and storage facility are also available at this terminal..

TERMINAL FACILITIES. Vessels berthed at High Level Jetty, Gaighat, Patna on NW-1 Vessels berthed at Low Level Jetty, Gaighat, Patna on NW-1.

FLOATING TERMINAL. The locations of these 20 floating terminals are as under: Haldia, Budge-Budge, BISN, Botanical Garden (Kolkata), Shantipur, Swaroopganj, Katwa, Hazardwari, Downstream (D/s) Farakka and Upstream (U/s) Farakka in West Bengal; Rajmahal (Manglahat) and Sahibganj (Samdaghat) in Jharkhand and Bateshwarsthan, Bhagalpur, Munger, Semaria and Buxar in Bihar; and Ghazipur / Rajghat, Ramnagar (Varanasi) and Allahabad terminals in Uttar Pradesh..

MAJOR CHALLENGES. Braiding and meandering characteristics of river Large fluctuation of the water level — from 16.5 m (54 ft) at Prayagraj to 2 m (6.6 ft) at Farakka Fluctuation of water velocity — from 4 m/s (14 km/h; 8.9 mph) during flood season to 0.2 m/s (0.72 km/h; 0.45 mph) during dry seasons High silt load - Ganges carries around 1,600 million tonnes of silt annually Shoal and island formation leading to splitting of main channel Changes to navigation line due to the lateral migration of the river Existence of power line pylons at various locations Existence of pontoon bridges are a significant threat to navigation — about 7 pontoon bridges are present between Buxar and Prayagraj which are in use Existence of critical bridges with horizontal clearance less than 70 m (230 ft) and vertical clearance less than 9 m (30 ft).

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