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Kochi, July 11 Falcon Infrastructures Ltd, which operates Kerala’s first private full-fledged inland Container Freight Station (CFS) at Kalammassery, has achieved the record of stuffing 240 tonnes of export cargo of coffee in a single day for shipment to Russia from Kochi port.

The cargo belonged to Harrisons Malayalam Ltd (HML), an RPG group company which is a leading player in India’s plantation industry. There were a total of 12 containers stuffed and dispatched in a single day.

Mr N.K. Mohammed Kutty, Managing Director, in a press release said this is a major achievement in the backdrop of the lingering negative image of Kerala’s labour industry.

In yet another significant development, the Falcon CFS at Kalamasserry has started reefer services — stuffing and de-stuffing of refrigerated containers meant for perishable cargo like seafood.

The Falcon CFS, located in close proximity to the road and rail links to the upcoming Vallarpadam International Container Transshipment Terminal, is part of the integrated logistics services facility of the Falcon group in the same premises.

The facility was among the projects featured at the Global Investment Meet organised by the Kerala Government a few years ago and among the very few which had successfully taken off.

Falcon is also in an advanced stage of negotiation for setting up a Free Trade Warehousing Zone with public-private participation, he said. The Rs 200-crore project is coming up in an area of 100 acres near Kalamsserry and the company is also planning an IPO for the purpose, he added.

More Free Trade Warehousing Zones and SEZs would be required in the State before the commissioning of the Vallarpadam terminal by the end of 2009, he added.

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