blaster,u will be blasted by LTTE bombers soon. i am verymuch in commercial shipping line and knew that sscp is not viable commercialy becouse situation in trade has changed lot now. only import of coal/copper ore/fertilisers ships of more than 30,000 mts coming from indonesia, middleeast,australia and southamerican nations are calling tuticorin to discharge above cargo. even if sscp is operational, those ships need not come via channel due to their origin of supply is in different directions and it does not warrant those ships to come via sscp channel and only smaller ships calling chennai from colombo would use in which revenue would be very less compared to the incurring expenses like pilotage,dredging/deslitting operation every year to remove accumlated mud in the channel besides huge investment in this mega project for the benefit of very few. blaster will see after next 10 years the truth of sscp implemented by useless upa govt in warfooting to loot money before they are rejected by people in next general election.
