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Supply Chain Management Concor to sign pact with Vinayak Global soon Our Bureau
Easy movement The agreement will help Nepalese traders to bring into their country at a reduced cost the edible oil imported by them from a third country, and unloaded at KDS. Tansportation in tank containers right up to the ICD will entail a cost saving of a few hundred rupees per tonne
Kolkata , May 4 Container Corporation of India Ltd (Concor) will soon sign an agreement with Vinayak Global Shipping Company, a local transporter of vegetable oil and edible oil for Nepal, to facilitate transportation of imported edible oil in tank containers from Kolkata Dock System (KDS) to Birganj inland container depot (ICD) in Nepal. While the rail services agreement between India and Nepal is still to allow movement of tank wagons between the two countries, there is no such restriction on the movement of tank containers. The proposed agreement will help Nepal traders to bring into their country at a reduced cost the edible oil imported by them from a third country, mainly Malaysia, and unloaded at KDS.
Cost saving
At present the transportation is done partly by road and partly by tank wagons but up to Raxaul, the last Indian railway station on the India-Nepal border in north Bihar, as tank wagons are not allowed inside Nepal. From Raxaul, it is again by road. The proposed transportation in tank containers right up to the ICD will therefore entail a cost saving of a few hundred rupees per tonne, it is estimated.
Direct reach
The proposed arrangement presupposes unloading of the imported consignments in the Budge Budge oil jetty of the KDS and stockpiling of the material in the storage tanks located within the dock, as before. The difference this time will be that instead of reloading the material partly into road tankers and partly into tank wagons, the reloading will be into tank containers for onward movement by rail right up to the Birganj ICD. The cargo volume, estimated at 1-lakh tonnes annually, if handled entirely by rail, will thus mean a big boost to container throughput on the KDS-Birganj ICD route. Vinayak Global Shipping, it is learnt, is in the process of acquiring on long-term lease more than 200 tank containers from Concor for deployment on the KDS-Birganj ICD route. It will be another two weeks or so before the actual movement starts. The agreement with Concor has to be finalised first, then all the tank containers, now at Kandla on the west coast, have to be collected and get together before bringing them to KDS. Then the boxes have to be cleaned. Each container will load about 20 kl and there will be 70 such containers in one rake, it is learnt.
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