SME Times News Bureau | 24 Nov, 2017
Kolkata Port Trust(KoPT) on Thursday said the Ro-Ro (Roll
on/Roll Off) export shipment of 240 trucks from Kolkata port to Bangladesh was
flagged off and transport through the sea route is expected to reduce travel
time.
These trucks, manufactured by Tata Motors at its Jamshedpur and Pantnagar
plants would be shipped to the neighbouring country's Mongla port in the vessel
MV IDM Doodle.
The trucks were previously shipped through land route, to and from Petrapol
border.
Appealing to all automobile manufacturers to use waterways for transporting
their automobiles, KoPT Chairman Vinit Kumar said the port would try to carry
on such significant venture in "deliberate, planned and sustained
manner" so that more interested automakers may join this new trade lane in
the near future.
KoPT expects to regularise this service in the coming months.
In October this year, Ashok Leyland had used similar Ro-Ro services for
transporting a shipment of 185 trucks from Chennai to Mongla.