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Monday, Aug 07, 2006
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Logistics
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Supply Chain Management
MORE WAGONS than boxes for Concor in Bihar.
For the past few months, the Container Corporation of India (Concor) has been functioning as the consignment handling agent of Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) in Bihar. According to the arrangement, Concor handles all SAIL's consignments arriving by covered wagons at Fatuha near Patna for distribution to various places in the state. The job involves not only unloading of the consignments from the wagons but also arranging for their proper stacking (this is important as it has to be done commodity-wise and specification-wise in respect of each SAIL plant) and delivering them at the doorsteps of the various customers, as per SAIL's instructions. An estimated 4,000 tonnes are handled every month on an average. Interestingly, there is no handling of containers in the whole exercise. Why then did Concor, devoted to the transportation of containerised traffic, take upon itself such a job? The reason is simple: To augment its earnings at Fatuha where it runs an ICD and incurs loss. The throughput of Fatuha ICD is insignificant — on an average, 150 TEUs a month, and that too inward traffic. There is no outward traffic.
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