Mr Pillai further mentioned that the Ministry of Commerce would be glad to facilitate trade related containerized supply chain issues for trade competitiveness for the country.
Prof Raghuram in his presentation on the Centrum white paper said that traffic will go up from the current volume of 6million TEU's to, conservatively, 20 million TEU's with a possibility of going upto 30 million TEU's considering a hub and spoke traffic model.
Speaking on the need for transshipment he said that given the reality of transshipment and feedering, it is important to focus on few ports on both the coasts with deep draft.
The key requirements of a transshipment terminal would be a strategic location, potential to reduce total transport cost using 'hub and spoke' arrangement, financial savings in terms of lower land values, less need for dredging and the facility to receive higher-capacity vessels to reduce overall fleet costs.
Mr R V S Ramakrishna, Event Chairman and Managing Director – ITW India said that the development of an intermodal supply chain strategy optimizing the existing infrastructure while building future capacities was the need of the hour.
He said that the Centrum initiative would focus continually on the changing need for containerized logistics keeping in mind the customer perspective.
Mr B Sridhar said that the CII Institute of Logistics would continuously on cutting edge issues related supply chain management.
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