The Hindu Business Line : Concor rushing jute bags to southern ports

Jute bag movement
Four rakes have already been moved to Chennai, Tuticorin, Kochi and Penambur ports while the fifth one, again for Chennai, is currently being loaded.
Jute bags constitute almost 40 per cent of Concor's traffic in eastern region.

Kolkata , March 29

Container Corporation of India (Concor) is rushing container loads of jute bags to various southern ports to facilitate packaging of imported wheat arriving in these ports. The wheat being imported in bulk is to be packed in jute bags for onward movement, mostly by train.

Four rakes have already been moved to the ports of Chennai, Tuticorin, Kochi and Penambur while the fifth one, again for Chennai, is currently being loaded at the local Majherhat terminal of Concor. Each rake contains on an average 3,500 bales of jute bags, each bale comprising 500 bags.

It might be noted that jute bags account for the bulk of Concor's traffic in eastern region. Every year on an average 80-85 rakes of jute bags are dispatched from Kolkata to Punjab, particularly to Ludhiana, to facilitate packaging of wheat and to Chhattisgarh (Bilaspur, Raipur and Durg) and Madhya Pradesh (Itarsi and Bhopal) for rice. "Jute bags represent nearly 40 per cent of our total traffic in the region," observe Concor sources, adding that, "the movement of bags for wheat imports has come as an additional traffic".

Concor has no information as yet if it will be required to rush more rakes to the southern or other ports for wheat imports. "We go by what Jute Commissioner's office asks us to do and we have no information as yet about future movement," observe the sources.

The procedure for movement of jute bags is Food Corporation of India generally (sometimes the State-level agency) places orders with the jute mills located in and around the city while Concor presses its hired lorries at the doorsteps of the mills as per the requisitions placed by FCI or other agency. The lorries bring the bales from the mills to Concor's Shalimar and Majherhat terminals. The empty containers at the terminals then get stuffed with the bales.

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