In A First, Concor To Start Using Made-In-India Containers As It Seeks To Cut Reliance On Chinese Imports swarajyamag.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from swarajyamag.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
It now imports 8,000 units from China
State-owned Container Corporation of India Ltd. (Concor) on Friday said it plans to source its annual requirement of about 8,000 containers, which till now were being imported from China, solely from domestic manufacturers.
Concor, that spends about ₹200 crore annually on procurement of containers, had already given a developmental order for 1,000 containers each to Bharat Heavy Electricals (BHEL) and Braithwaite & Co. both public sector undertakings. For the remaining 6,000 containers, the company would soon issue tenders in which only domestic firms would be able to participate.
“As of now, all containers are imported because there is no manufacturing capability in India,” said V. Kalyana Rama, CMD.
Railways’ ‘cube’ containers to slash supply chain cost by up to 25%
January 11, 2021
Attract more 2- and 3-wheeler cargo to rail
Indian Railways, which has already started attracting a lot of automobile cargo this fiscal, may start getting a higher share of two- and three-wheelers with the introduction of a small, cube container called the ‘cube’.
These containers, with the dimensions of a cuboid, will lower the total cost of transportation by 20-25 per cent, said Kalyani Cast Tech, the New Delhi-based company that designed the box.
Six such cubes can fit onto a flat wagon that usually carries one FEU-sized (forty feet equivalent unit) container or two TEU-sized (twenty feet equivalent unit) containers, said Naresh Kumar, founder, Kalyani Cast Tech.