Highly speculative. A gamble that relies on faith in directors doing what they boast they can do. Building a port on India's west coast on an inlet where they plan to construct a manmade island structure just offshore with short bridge links to it.

India's election result will presumably to be percieved as beneficial to stocks such as this one involved in significant infrastructure projects.

An interesting press article from David Bellamy of broker Brewin Dolphin - featuring Skil Ports as a stock that he holds shares in, and which he has put clients' money into.

Annual results are expected tomorrow.

Sorry, wrong stock thread!

Activity at last! Dignitaries today attended a ceremony inaugurating the Karanja port project. Sometime tomorrow the website is apparently being updated with a video and new images.

Click website NEWS page today and tomorrow.

PS: The video presumably will show the ceremony - and might not show anything on the site.

Video (now on website) does indeed show only the speech, not the site. Sounds like we might finally see a site video around end of January perhaps.

Here we go!!!!!

Up another 6+% today

And up yet another 6% today!!!!!!!!!!!!!

At last, Skil Ports (SPL) have posted something on their website giving a clue as to what they are working towards at Karanja. No realtime progress images, but a nice amimated video see video

And a poster on another bulletin board has this morning posted images of what appears to be the beginnings of construction of an earth bank forming possibly the east approach road (The port plan is basically a steel framed platform standing offshore, linked to land via two gated access roadways - and this looks like one of those roadways - though rather crude, so might be purely for constructor access and replaced or reinforced later?)

dropbox images, Karanja port site

On a longterm chart this looks just like one of the many previous upkicks within what - each time - turned out to be an ongoing downtrend. Is it different this time?? Has it finally bottomed?

Photographs that we've now seen (if genuine) suggest that things are at last happening on site.

This new batch of progress photos posted by PJ1 an hour ago has triggered sharp upward movement in the share price:

Karanja port update

Up 19% today. That's nice. 76% up from its low of Nov 26.

The original investors considered the company to be worth over £100m - and that was based on a port project that still required various permissions and approvals which might not have been forthcoming. After very long delays those have now been granted and construction is at last under way, with a constant stream of tipper trucks coming and going every day.

I am enjoying the ride now.
Juzzle when is it supposed to be an operational port?

PGV4 - the only dates previously given in company statements are irrelevant after such lengthy delays in getting started. My guess is that some token use of the east quay mightll occur before the end of this year - by when the construction traffic should be using the second access road, and this first road will be open for very limited business. I'll be (pleasantly) surprised if any serious port activity is generating income before Easter 2016. But the promise of that, and of full use by e/o 2016, if evidenced by apparent progress, should be enough to continue driving the share price between now and then. One concern is over what additional funding might be required and when.

Unusually high volume underlying today's firm rise.

Posters on other bulletin boards have obtained and displayed numerous photos in the past two weeks, showing hundreds of trucks busily streaming to and from site in a nose-to-tail convoy, tipping material being levelled at a rapid pace now as the contractor plays catchup in building the port at last.


Pictures taken this week, looking back towards land, from the port area being built offshore. Trucks seen in Image 7 are on the road linking port to shore.

Port is basically a rectangular manmade island 1.0km wide being built just offshore, with two roads linking it to shore (one recently built, one later).

Share price has doubled in 14 weeks since bouncing of its alltime low in November.
Seems people are at last convinced that serious progress is happening on site.

EDIT (April): But fell back on news that work is hindered by local protestors.

Saudi money heading for India. Presumably other such funds that follow will include stakes in ports and other key infrastructure areas..

Saudi Gazette