The Hindu Business Line : Fall in tea exports through Amingaon ICD

TEA shipments through the Amingaon (Guwahati) inland container depot (ICD) have recorded a total throughput of 1,956 TEUs for 2002-03 as compared to 2,005 TEUs in 2001-02. It is stated that the shipment to Pakistan was 190 TEUs (36 TEUs) and P&O Nedloyd handled the entire shipment.

Among the lines participating in the ICD shipment, Shipping Corporation of India (SCI), with a total throughput of 816 TEUs (803 TEUs) tops the list, followed by P&O Nedloyd 728 TEUs (735 TEUs), APL 240 TEUs (222 TEUs) and Maersk 160 TEUs (230 TEUs). ZIM and Goldstar participated in 2001-02 but not in 2002-03. This year's new entrant was MCS, handling only 12 TEUs, all for the UAE.

The SCI's shipment was almost entirely to the UK/Continent, 787 TEUs out of its total shipment of 816 TEUs. The shipping line handled 25 TEUs for Sri Lanka and four TEUs for the US. The total shipment to the UK/Continent by all shipping lines was 1,297 TEUs.

SCI thus accounted for a little more than 60 per cent of the total UK/Continent shipment. Last year, the share was 52.6 per cent (748 TEUs out of a total UK/Continent shipment of 1,422 TEUs).

P&O Nedloyd, on the other hand, accounted for the bulk of the total shipment to the non-UK/Continent destinations. With the total throughput of 336 TEUs out of the total non-UK/Continent shipment of 659 TEUs by all shipping lines, the shipping line's share was as high as 51 per cent.

It handled the entire shipment of 190 TEUs to Pakistan and the bulk of shipments to Russia (32 TEUs out of 56 TEUs), Canada (50 TEUs out of 56 TEUs) and Sri Lanka (29 TEUs out of 54 TEUs). For the UK/Continent, it handled 392 TEUs out of a total of 1,297.

Interestingly, the bulk of the total shipment to non-UK/Continent destinations was to the UAE (220 TEUs) followed by Pakistan (190 TEUs). The corresponding figures for last year were 226 TEUs (the UAE) and 36 TEUs (Pakistan). P&O Nedloyd handled only six boxes for the UAE.

Among other non-UK/Continent destinations were the US, Canada and Russia -56 TEUs each, followed by Sri Lanka - 54 TEUs, Japan - 10 TEUs, Indonesia - 8 TEUs, Singapore - 4 TEUs and Qatar and Bahrain - two TEUs each.

Among the tea shippers using the Amingaon ICD for export purposes, George Williamson, with the total throughput of 897 TEUs ( 979 TEUs in 2001-02), tops the list, followed by Eveready Industries - 649 TEUs (630 TEUs), Assam Company - 224 TEUs (248 TEUs) Tata Tea - 58 TEUs (17 TEUs), Moran Tea - 53 TEUs ( 61 TEUs), Hindustan Lever - 37 TEUs (nil), Goodricke - 24 TEUs (36 TEUs), others - 14 TEUs (two TEUs).

Unlike this year, Andrew Yule and B&A Ltd participated in the ICD shipment last year. Lakhi Wood Industries sent four boxes to the UAE and two each to Qatar and Bahrain while J.K. Industries sent four to Singapore and two to the UAE.

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