Work completed on Visakhapatnam and JNPT highway port connectivity projects

In a notable development, the construction work on the Visakhapatnam port road connectivity project Phase II and the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) highway port connectivity project has been completed. The Visakhapatnam port road connectivity project Phase II involved widening of the existing balance of the 4.15 km long National Highway (NH)-16 (formerly NH-5) road into four lanes and laying of a service road in Andhra Pradesh with an investment of Rs 1 billion. Phase I covering 12.5 km was completed on December 13, 2006 at an investment of Rs 1.15 billion.