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Container trade takes to coastal sea

route, lowers logistics costsMoving containers by sea is faster, cheaper and safer; it also saves cargo

from overland congestion bottlenecks

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Bangalore: In an innovative move to trim haulage costs and hasten delivery, cargo owners using the Jawaharlal Nehru

Port near Mumbai are reaching goods to Maharashtra and Gujarat by using barges for part of the way.

New beginning:A file photo of the Jawaharlal Nehru Port near Mumbai. Ashesh Shah / Mint

Exporters and importers are now shipping containers between Indias busiest container port at Nhava Sheva and

Dharamtar, a small port about 25.9km away, in barges, which takes some three hours. Hauling cargo to a warehouse in,

say Panvel or Bhiwandi, 20km to 60km by road, can take anywhere between three and eight hours, depending on traffic

and entry restrictions.

It is the first time this is being tried in India; coastal shipping is fairly common elsewhere, including in Europe and China.

Transportation by sea is faster, cheaper and safer. Plus, waterside operations makes the cargo free from the congestion

bottlenecks on the land side, said Nrupal Patil, director, Dharamtar Infrastructure Ltd, a joint venture company of United

Shippers Ltd and PNP Maritime Services Pvt. Ltd that owns and operates Dharamtar Port.The first such export shipment of 42 twenty-feet equivalent units (TEUs), executed late last year by CMA CGM SA, the

worlds third biggest container ship operator, marked the beginning of container operations at Dharamtar. TEU is an

industry measure of container cargo.

Hinterland logistics costs are more important than ocean costs in the overall transportation chain, said Luc Arnouts,

chief commercial officer, Antwerp Port, Europes second biggest. Half of the containers arriving at Antwerp can be moved

by barge to the hinterland.

Given that logistics forms 13% of the overall gross domestic product in India compared to half of that in the Western

economies, the local industry has long figured out that effective and innovative logistics and supply chain management

concepts can result in significant savings directly or indirectly, said Vishal Sharma, founder and managing director,

Tuscan Ventures Pvt. Ltd, a logistics-focused investment company.

Coastal shipping is being tried in India for the first time, but it is fairly common inEurope and ChinaUntil recently, Dharamtar Port, located on the right bank of the Amba river, about 2km from National Highway 17

connecting Mumbai to Goa, was mainly handling some 2.5 million tonnes of bulk cargo in a year. The port has now

developed container handling facilities, but will continue to focus on barges, as they have proved to be fast and efficient.

Dharamtar can only handle barges as it is only 4m deep. There are currently two barges in operation, with a total

capacity of 130 TEUs.

Most major container shipping lines accept and deliver cargo at Dharamtar Port now, said Sameer Varma, also of

Tuscan Ventures. Several cargo movers are now using this route including tiles maker Nitco Ltd, and pipe and valve

manufacturer Indian Seamless Metal Tubes Ltd.

Dharamtar has three jetties, of which one is dedicated to container operations. The port is suited to handling commodities

because it has in-house automatic bagging plants and also railway tracks, which is expected to be operational later thisyear, enabling it to handle containers originating from and bound for northern India.

The port has 240,000 sq. ft of warehousing space that can be quickly scaled up to 2 million sq. ft.

The port is also in a customs-notified area. As a result, containers being imported and cleared at Dharamtar can be

emptied and released without paying levies for 30 days.

Port location advantage and quick container movement have reduced the overall logistics cost at Dharamtar, said

Varma.
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CT in pact for affordable services30 Mar 2009, 0049 hrs IST, ET Bureau

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Indira Container Terminal (ICT), which is developing Mumbai Port's offshore container terminal, is signing a co-operation agreement with

DharamtarInfrastructure on Tuesday, March 31, to enhance value added services and complete cost saving logistic solutions for cargo handled atMumbai Port.

While ICT is a joint venture between Spains Dragados SPL and the Gammon group, Dharamtar Infrastructure is another JV between United Shippers

and PNP Maritime Services that owns and operates Dharamtar Port.

ICT partners Dharamtar Infra for logistics solutionsThursday, 09 Apr 2009

The Indira Container Terminal Pvt. Ltd, which is building the offshore container terminal at Mumbai Port, and Dharamtar Infrastructure Ltd,which runs Dharamtar port, have signed a cooperation agreement to facilitate value-added services and cost-saving logistics solutions forcargoes handled at ICT terminals.

The agreement entails efficient handling of ICT cargo, both imports and exports, utilizing the range of facilities at Dharamtar so as to avoidmultiple suppliers and reducing the overall logistics costs.

Dharamtar, which is 16 nautical milesfrom ICT and 13 nautical miles from JN Port, and 37 km south of Panvel on the Bombay-Alibaug road,has been developed to primarily service the mother ports in order to facilitate efficient and smooth logistics operations.

Some of the services it offers are container transportation by sea/road (rail proposed), bulk and break-bulk transport by sea/road,warehousing and distribution for all commodities, CFS facility, Custom-notified warehousing (2,40,000 sq. ft of covered space), emptycontainer management, container repairs and Customs clearance.

Dharamtar will offer its facilities as an acceptance point for cargo to and from ICT, facilitating landside support. It will be linked to ICT bysea under the same Customs house (Bombay Customs). And importantly, the port will offer direct and fast connections to ICT by owndedicated container barges, the transit time being only 4 hours.

Dharamtar has been notified for container transportation and has a dedicated 32-m container barge jetty. It owns and operates 75 barges,including 3 for box cargo (2 x 88 TEU, 1x 42 TEU). Among its other salient features are the best of modern equipment, includingspecialized steel handling equipment and advanced IT systems to support the logistics operations.

Dharamtar, which currently handles close to 4 million tonnes of bulk cargo and 150-200 containers a week, is a JV between UnitedShippers and PNP Maritime Services.

ICT is a joint venture between Spains Dragados SPL and the Gammon Group. The OCT will, when both phases are complete (in 4 years),have a total quay length of 1,050 m with proposed capacity of 1.2 million TEUs.

(Source: Exim News Service) ICT partners Dharamtar Infra for logistics solutionsThursday, 09 Apr, 2009

The Indira Container Terminal Pvt. Ltd, which is building the offshore container terminal at Mumbai Port, and Dharamtar

Infrastructure Ltd, which runs Dharamtar port, have signed a cooperation agreement to facilitate value-added services and

cost-saving logistics solutions for cargoes handled at ICT terminals.

The agreement entails efficient handling of ICT cargo, both imports and exports, utilizing the range of facilities at Dharamtar

so as to avoid multiple suppliers and reducing the overall logistics costs.

Dharamtar, which is 16 nautical milesfrom ICT and 13 nautical miles from JN Port, and 37 km south of Panvel on theBombay-Alibaug road, has been developed to primarily service the mother ports in order to facilitate efficient and smooth

logistics operations.Some of the services it offers are container transportation by sea/road (rail proposed), bulk and break-bulk transport by

sea/road, warehousing and distribution for all commodities, CFS facility, Custom-notified warehousing (2,40,000 sq. ft of

covered space), empty container management, container repairs and Customs clearance.

Dharamtar will offer its facilities as an acceptance point for cargo to and from ICT, facilitating landside support. It will be

linked to ICT by sea under the same Customs house (Bombay Customs). And importantly, the port will offer direct and fast

connections to ICT by own dedicated container barges, the transit time being only 4 hours.

Dharamtar has been notified for container transportation and has a dedicated 32-m container barge jetty. It owns and operates

75 barges, including 3 for box cargo (2 x 88 TEU, 1x 42 TEU). Among its other salient features are the best of modernequipment, including specialized steel handling equipment and advanced IT systems to support the logistics operations.

Dharamtar, which currently handles close to 4 million tonnes of bulk cargo and 150-200 containers a week, is a JV between

United Shippers and PNP Maritime Services.

ICT is a joint venture between Spains Dragados SPL and the Gammon Group. The OCT will, when both phases are

complete (in 4 years), have a total quay length of 1,050 m with proposed capacity of 1.2 million TEUs.(Source: Exim News Service)

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