Central Warehousing Corporation showcases end-to-end integrated logistics solutions at launch on Konkan Railway network in Mangaluru

With its ain warehouses and beingness successful the obstruction proscription sector, the Central Warehousing Corporation (CWC) volition connection end-to-end logistics solutions, from stuffing of consignment into containers to unpacking and delivering to customers, according to CWC Managing Director Santosh Sinha.

Talking to The Hindu connected the sidelines of CWC launching its instrumentality freight train from Mangaluru to Morbi successful Gujarat transporting polypropylene produced by Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited (MRPL) connected January 22, Mr. Sinha said CWC has the vantage of owning warehouses, dissimilar different instrumentality freight bid operators. The corp would leverage the vantage of having 741 warehouses crossed India to connection end-to-end integrated logistics solutions.

The motorboat of the freight bid successful Mangaluru marks a important measurement successful CWC’s enlargement into integrated logistics services, demonstrating its capableness successful handling end-to-end multimodal proscription on with inventory absorption arsenic a one-stop full proviso concatenation solution provider, Mr. Sinha said.

To heighten capacity, CWC besides would usage containers arsenic impermanent warehouses, thereby eliminating costs connected unloading, transporting to accepted warehouses, and re-loading the consignment. “This works cheaper arsenic compared to accepted warehouses,” helium said. 

Expansion plans

CWC Director (Marketing and Corporate Planning) Samuel Praveen Kumar said the pan-India Container Train Operator licence possessed by the corp enables it to run instrumentality freight trains anyplace successful India. He said the corp was acquiring rakes arsenic a portion of its enlargement plan. The CWC has its ain fleet of 10 BLSS rakes (Spine Cars) portion different 3 were successful the pipeline. While it was operating different 10 rakes connected lease, 4 much were expected to beryllium obtained connected lease soon. It would frankincense person 27 BLSS rakes, each susceptible of transporting 98 TEU (20-foot-equivalent unit) containers.

First from Mangaluru

Mr. Kumar said the departure of MRPL’s consignment to Morbi was the archetypal penetration of CWC successful Konkan Railway Corporation Limited network, and successful this portion of Karnataka. The corp has rail-side warehouses astatine Thokur, Udupi and Verna (Goa), portion 1 much would travel up successful Ratnagiri (Maharashtra). This infrastructure would adhd spot to the operations, helium added.

Digitising warehouses

Director (Finance) Niraj Priyadarshi said the corp was aggressively digitising its warehouses and has already covered astir 217 foodgrain warehouses. Digitisation was underway for the remaining 500-odd warehouses, helium added.