The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority has selected five consortiums to bid for the Mumbai Trans Harbour Link (MHTL) project.
The $1.8 billion project, which will contain a 6 lane highway and a dual Metro line which will connect the island city with Navi Mumbai, is already running years behind scheduled.
The five shortlisted consortiums areCINTRA-SOMA-SREI, Gammon Infrastructure Projects Ltd-OHL Concessions-GS Engineering consortium, GMR Infrastructure Ltd-L&T Ltd — Samsung C&T Corporation, IRB Infrastructure Developers Ltd and Hyundai consortium and a consortium of Tata Realty and Infrastructure Ltd-Autostrade Indian Infrastructure Development Pvt. Ltd. – Vinci Concessions Development V Pte Ltd.
The selected consortiums will now be provided with bid documents once they are generally approved by the Government of India. The consortiums will also be issued copies of draft feasibility reports, previous studies and surveys.
The RFP needs the approval from the GoI as the project needs 20% Viability Gap Funding from the Government of India.
The project will be implemented through Public-Private Partnership on the design, build, finance, operate and transfer basis.
The shortlisted consortiums are then expected to finalise designs, technical details, financial details, actual survey of project site etc. and prepare their bids around October 2012.
In August 2011, MMRDA had appointed Arup Consultancy Engineers and KPMG to conduct the techno-economic feasibility and the report is expected to be submitted by October 2012.
The link is 22 km long with a 16.5 km long bridge across Mumbai harbor and 5.5 km long viaduct approaches on the Sewri and Nhava sides.
Interchanges are proposed at Sewri to connect to Eastern Freeway and at Chirle to connect to the National Highway (NH) 4B to facilitate traffic dispersal.
