Up to 800 Hyundai vehicles were packed on the M.V. IDM Symex, a roll-on-roll-off (RoRo) vessel, along the Chennai Port on Saturday. The cargo will be unloaded at Pipavav Port in Gujarat, Chennai Port Deputy Chairman Cyril C. George said.
While Hyundai had been choosing Chennai Port for moving vehicles, this is the very first time that it is really carrying its freight through the sea for domestic market.
Trade sources declared it takes regularly 3 or 4 days for the car producer to move vehicles from the formulation facilities near Chennai to Gujarat region by way of trailers.
Though, shipping them is seen as eco-friendly and also low-priced because Centre had pledged to give motivation of Rs.3,000 every auto to those people utilising sea route.
Meeting with The Hindu, Mr. George exclaimed: “It is yet another project of the Mission Resurge - Chennai Port. Additionally, it is in accordance with the Shipping Ministry’s guidelines of supporting coastal transport, limiting carbon foot print together with dealing with the traffic jams difficulty at the port. Furthermore it is the first time that cars are now being transported from the east coast to western coast.”
Following flagging off the original service, Chennai Port Trust representatives are furthermore in conversation with other OEMs like Nissan also Ford to begin the process utilizing the coast for shipping vehicles.
“To really encourage the OEMs to work with our solutions, we have presented a flat wharfage charge of Rs.500 for each small vehicle and Rs.2,000 for sizeable cars. Besides that the wharfage for RoRo boats making use of coastal journey has been greatly reduced by 40 percent of normal cost. This determination was taken in a day,” said Chennai Port Chairman M.A. Bhaskarachar.
Kamarajar Port, which not too long ago overtook Chennai Port on car exports, is additionally contemplating in a comparable route. “In most cases, coal, fertilizers, iron ore, oil products and also cement are sent from one port to an alternative. From this moment, we are requesting the OEMs to transfer motors from southern ports to western ports. This should bring about getting rid of sizeable volume of trailers off road, lower carbon footprint and additionally fuel intake,” Mr. Bhaskarachar documented.