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Tuesday, Aug 22, 2006
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Logistics
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Supply Chain Management Agri-Biz & Commodities - Wheat Concor moving gunny bags to help FCI handle imported wheat Our Bureau
Gunny consignments Concor started transportation of gunny bags from July and has already moved 21 rakes, equivalent of about 1,500 container loads of bags, to different ports.
Kolkata , Aug. 21 The Container Corporation of India (Concor) is now transporting bales of gunny bags from Kolkata to various ports to help the Food Corporation of India (FCI) bag the imported wheat arriving at these ports. According to the programme finalised by FCI, the west coast ports of Mundra, Kandla and Mumbai will receive the bulk of the bales programmed for despatches in domestic railway containers from here. An estimated 1.2 lakh bales of gunny bags, equivalent of about 2,400 containers (TEUs) comprising about 34 rakes, will be moved to various ports till October. About 22 of these rakes have been programmed for Mundra port, another nine rakes for Kandla and one rake each for Chennai, Mumbai and Visakhapatnam. Concor started transportation of gunny bags from July and has already moved 21 rakes, equivalent of about 1,500 container loads of bags, to different ports. Thus, it has fulfilled its commitment to Chennai and Visakhapatnam ports by sending one rake each, while Mundra and Kandla have already received 14 and five rakes respectively. However, Mumbai is yet to receive the rake programmed for it. Concor, inquiries reveal, is providing the total logistics solutions: FCI issues the delivery orders to Concor empowering it to pick up the bags from the designated mills located within a radius 50 km. Concor then transports the bags by road in break-bulk condition from the mills to its terminals at Majerhat and Shalimar. At the terminals, the bags are unloaded from the trucks and the stuffing of containers is undertaken. The containers, once properly stuffed with the bags, are put on railway flats for onward movement to various ports. "Our responsibility ends with rakes reaching the ports," said Concor sources.
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