Sethusamudram cuts off sailing time of less than a day and a distance of about five hundred nautical miles, which is a negligible saving compared to the costs of using the channel, according to the calculations of a former deputy chairman of the Tuticorin Port Trust, K.S.Ramakrishnan.
Any ship using SSCP will have to pay pilotage charges. There are various ways to calculate pilotage charges. Ramakrishna arrives at a figure of Rs 1.11 lakh per kilometer, which a ship has to pay for pilotage. For a channel length of Sethusamudram that would require pilotage, which Ramakrishnan fixes at fifty-six kilometer, a ship would end up spending eight times more than it would to go around Sri Lanka. Ramakrishna, therefore, concludes that ships won"t use the channel. The bulk of international shipping, comprising vessels larger than sixty thousand tonnes, cannot use the SSCP because the draught of ten meters is inadequate.
The Project for the Canal will destroy India"s thorium deposits:
The Ram Setu, besides its heritage value it embedded thorium deposits in its vicinity.
The Sethusamudram Project will become an undoubted tsunami maximizer
. Since the tsunami of December 2004, several computer models have established its path and destructive mode since originating from a nine Richter earthquake hypo-centred off the west coast of north Sumatra in Indonesia. Traveling at speeds exceeding eight hundred kilometers per hour, the tsunami
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