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As private ports they also provide good customer care. port should reduce the vessel related charges Some of the vessels that have stopped calling at recently are the Hyundai to face the competition from neighboring ports: SKP Merchant Marine mainline service. (Interview Continued) or Mundra ports currently enjoy What do you attribute this The service has shifted its Sagar Sandesh: What will get extended to Cochin trend to? Is this because of the call to nearby Katupalli from is your take on the future of port or Vizhinjam may be after competition from neighboring Chennai port. This is a weekly transshipment terminals like the 20 years. These are long term ports or due to evacuation service direct to the Korean port one at Vallarpadem and the one projects for the country. problems in the port? of Busan. that is coming up at Vizhinjam or Sagar Sandesh: While the SKP: The advantage of The Adani group which owns the one proposed at Colachel? private ports like Katupalli., moving cargo through Katupalli the Katupalli port is offering lot SKP: The terminal coming Krishnapatnam, the private or Krishnapatnam ports is of benefits to attract Liner vessels up at Vizhinjam and the one terminal at VOC Port besides tremendous since these ports and cargo. Mr. Seetharaman Krishnamurthy Pradeak proposed at Colachel are long JNPT and Mundra ports are have wide connecting roads. Joint Managing Director, term projects which will provide doing well in container volumes Moving cargo to the port or dividend to the country after a during the current year. evacuation becomes swift and span of say twenty years. Chennai port terminals less cumbersome unlike in ports The connectivity which JNPT registered a negative growth. like Chennai. Turn to Page - 4 4 Wednesday, October 23, 2019

FM Nirmala Sitharaman says more reforms Chennai port should reduce ... From Page -3 on anvil this fiscal to boost growth Chennai port has suffered a become permanent as they have has the potential of affecting set-back in recent years since decided not to look back since the existing container volumes a number of mainline vessels they enjoy good services at both at Chennai port. The trade finds which were calling at the port VOC port Tuticorin and Mumbai the road option in this short route have shifted their base to either Sagar Sandesh: When do better cost wise. to Katupalli or Kamarajar port you think the satellite port project Sagar Sandesh: What . at Puducherry is expected to take is the status of Chennai port Chennai port should reduce off? Has the dredging work at Madurvoyal elevated corridor the vessel related charges to face the port completed? Is the trade project? When do you think the competition from neighboring confidant the Coastal movement work on the project will ports. The administration and of containers from Chennai to resume? Is there any progress trade should take effective steps Puducherry and Karaikal Ports on the proposed Logistics part Our ambition to become economically strong has been to stop the wild cat strike like the will be more economical than at Jolarpet? Has the Southern driven more by our desire to become a less poor nation: ones recently organized by the the road transport undertaken at railway handed over the required FM Nirmala Sitharaman tractor trailer operators. present? land at Jolarpet railway station I am aware of some cargo SKP: The coastal movement to the Chennai Port to make it NEW DELHI said: "We continue to remain consolidators, who were of containers from Chennai port operational? Sagar Sandesh News Service one of the fastest growing operating in Chennai port for to Puducherry and Karaikal tried economies in the world. decades shifted to Tuticorin and out on a pilot basis is not found ddressing Columbia Our growth story is not Mumbai ports two years ago. A to be economical. More over AUniversity's School hostage to performance in some temporary decision they took has this multimodal transportation Turn to Page - 8 of International and Public quarters." Affairs, Finance Minister said “We are well and truly "We have just entered the on our way to becoming a $5 second half of 2019-20 and trillion economy by 2024-25. A already implemented a series of five trillion dollar economy will English translation of the poem by reforms with more on the anvil make India a global economic before the close of year. 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Regulations designed to the exim tariff, but the royalty way to go as far as regulatory and Supply Chain protect a transshipment hub remains at the higher exim levels. infrastructure. Unfortunately rarely work, simply because of It’s all well and good encouraging every single global terminal the availability of competing coastal trade, which is crucial to operator present in major ports hubs support transshipment, but at the is locked onto some arbitration Students’ Corner - 157 The regulatory infrastructure same time, such a contradiction or litigation with the Port Trust extends beyond the port. A discourages the terminals from or Tariff Regulator or with both. Distribution connects the producer of the product and the transshipment terminal does not handling coastal volumes. Again, PSA always does its best to work consumer of the product. Without the consumer, no business operate in isolation. It needs a we suggest a level playing field alongside all our stakeholders, is possible and in a way, he decides the volume of the business supporting network of marine for this, and we understand the our track record speaks for itself. including the other features like design and packaging. Consumer feeder operators and road/rail Ministry of Shipping is actively There also needs to be a more is the king of the market. Of course, between the producer of the access, indeed a supporting considering reducing the coastal effective approach to dispute product and the consumer, there are many intermediaries who are network of connectivity in not royalty levels to be in line with resolution for major projects, inevitable in the channel of distribution. just the physical shipment of the lower tariffs. else the uncertainty will be priced Distribution to be effective must deliver goods to all the containers, to and from the The transshipment hub in into projects by participants. stakeholders in right time, in the right place and in the right terminals, between terminals Freeport, Bahamas is a good So in summary, as a nation quantity without any damage to the goods. in the same port, but also in the example of how regulation that has for many years, Delivering the goods in right time brings in many advantages. exchange of information. can drive transshipment seen more than 25% of its First of all, the customer is satisfied that he has received the goods From a national perspective, growth elsewhere. Cabotage containerized cargo transshipped in right time in the sense that his need for it can be fulfilled as the relaxation of some cabotage restrictions in the US mean at foreign hubs, it is logical for he wished. Additionally, it reinforces the brand image of the restrictions in May 2018 was a that transshipment in the US India to strive for a hub of its own, company because it makes the customer feel that the company has move in the right direction, borne will never happen, since the particularly given many of the responded correctly to the customer since it values the customer. out by the increase in coastal cost of operating domestically physical components are either Nothing damages the name of the company than a delivery of volumes and the reduction of flagged vessels is just too high, in place or achievable. However, goods in a wrong place. And no blame should be laid at the door Indian cargoes handled abroad. compared to foreign flag vessels with the highly competitive of the customer at any cost, generally. Verification of the address Detractors remain, in part operating from foreign hubs. nature of transshipment, a hub is a valid measure because the place is the final destination in the because domestically flagged So the regulatory barriers in the in India needs to be able to more journey of the product. vessels are subject to more US presented an opportunity to than match the competition, in So also the right quantity: Quantity is not just the number but stringent regulation than foreign. offshore transshipment hubs, in every aspect, not just a few key it also includes correct packaging. Very often, a good packaging In addition, despite the relaxation the same way that foreign hubs ones, in order to stand a chance of leaves a good impression on the mind of the customer. of some cabotage restrictions, we have benefitted from regulations. success and so reap the benefits. Distribution has some more tangible benefits. It creates have the strange situation for the In that regard, I don’t think So we wish the concept all the job opportunities. It is said in distribution is involved a huge terminals whereby the coastal I would be betraying any great best and as PSA, stand ready to number of graduates and even post-graduates in international tariff is reduced by 40% from secrets by saying there is a good play our part. food delivering companies like Zomato. In catering domain, the vvv distribution of food items ordered under home-delivery mode has been gaining popularity which means business for the catering organisation is on the increase. Flipkart and Amazon are reputed examples that solely depend on the efficient supply chain which Chennai port should reduce the vessel related charges functions effectively in distribution. Of course, through distribution channel, information flow can be easily and cost-effectively maintained. The company can to face the competition from neighboring ports: SKP pass on vital information about its products and also get direct From Page - 4 feedback from the customers. We will spend some more time on distribution management SKP: The EXIM trade wants Administrations for the past completed it would help further in our next. the elevated corridor project four years. While several multi increasing the traffic from the to be commissioned as early modal parks have taken off on west coast. as possible for this would help the river Ganga during the last South Indian exporters would speedy evacuation of containers. few months, no such effort is shift base to west coast ports In my view the proposed forthcoming in coastal India. Has because of the reduction in sailing Logistics Park has practical the government failed to promote time. Instead of Colombo or problems. The Park authorities end to end movement of cargo Singapore they will make JNPT would like to move the rakes to with coastal shipping as one of or Mundra their transshipment the Chennai port only if they get the components? destinations. sufficient cargo. Hence there is a SKP: The exporters are not Sagar Sandesh: The existing possibility of waiting period for briefed about the advantages Indian ports especially in the east the cargo which arrives at the on cost if they resort to coastal coast need more cargo, Hence the Park. shipping. The cost benefit government should concentrate Moreover once the park gets needs to be explained so that on utilizing the capacity commissioned there will be no they increasingly resort to this in the existing ports rather work for the 30 Odd Container mode of transport. The domestic than concentrate on creating Freight Stations functioning exporters need to be educated Greenfield ports said leading at present around Chennai about this. container terminal operator. Your port. Already they are reeling Sagar Sandesh: Do you take on the issue. under the impact of Direct Port think the commissioning of the SKP: This is one hundred Delivery and Direct Port Entry Sethu- Ship-Canal project will per cent true. The existing Schemes introduced by the promote coastal shipping in the ports need more cargo and Customs authorities. country since the project as and government should concentrate Sagar Sandesh: Coastal when commissioned will reduce on creating conditions including shipping has not taken off the sailing time of ships between infrastructure to facilitate calling despite various promotional the west and east coast by at least of liner services at all Indian ports measures offered by the shipping two days flat? and improve the rail connectivity Won’t you be delighted to receive the product you ministry and the individual Port SKP: if the project is to east coast ports. vvv ordered with flowers?