- Business
- Kesar Terminals & Infrastructure Limited (KTIL.BO), founded in 2008 and headquartered in Mumbai, India, operates as a bulk liquid storage and logistics company primarily at Kandla Port in Gujarat, providing storage and handling services for importers and exporters of various liquid cargoes including petroleum products, petrochemicals, industrial and specialty chemicals, solvents, acetic acid, phenol, castor oil, edible and non-edible oils, alcohol, acrylonitrile, M P Diol, and para di chloro benzene (PDCB); the company maintains two terminals with 64 tanks offering approximately 1.27 lakh KL capacity, Terminal 1 enabling direct import and export operations with multiple jetty lines for simultaneous vessel discharges, and facilities certified under ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015, and OHSAS 18001:2015 with 24-hour CCTV surveillance. KTIL traces its storage operations at Kandla back to 1960, originally developed from Kesar Enterprises Ltd., of which it ceased to be a subsidiary in 2010, and focuses on hazardous and non-hazardous liquids serving the energy, chemical, and logistics sectors primarily in India. In recent developments, KTIL, through its wholly owned subsidiary Kesar Multimodal Logistics Ltd., signed a Share Subscription and Share Purchase Agreement in September 2023 with DP World Multimodal Logistics Pvt Ltd for the potential sale of up to 100% equity and preference stake in the subsidiary, which operates a composite logistics hub project at Pawarkheda, Madhya Pradesh; the Madhya Pradesh government proposed amendments in 2024 to the original concession agreement to facilitate this divestment by removing the 26% promoter stake lock-in condition after clearance of dues, subject to regulatory approvals.