CONCOR Multi Modal Logistics Park at Kathuwas in Rajasthan inaugurated

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Member (Customs), Central Board of Excise & Customs, Shri Bhushan Kumar Bansal inaugurated ICD in CONCOR’s newly constructed Multi Modal Logistics Park (MMLP) located at Kathuwas, Rajasthan in the august presence of Shri Anil Kumar Gupta, Chairman and Managing Director, CONCOR, Sh. Kamal Jyoti, Chief Commissioner of Customs (Preventive), Sh. S.S. Lenka, Chief Commissioner Central Excise Jaipur, Shri Yash Vardhan, Director (International Marketing & Operations), CONCOR, Dr. P. Alli Rani, Director (Finance), CONCOR, Shri Arvind Bhatnagar, Director (Domestic), CONCOR, Shri V. Kalyana Rama, Director (Projects& Services), CONCOR and heads of various Shipping Lines & Captains of the Industry.

MMLP, Kathuwas is the largest of its kind in India spread over around 283 acres of land serving Container Port Terminals of JNPT, Mundra, Pipavav, Hazira, other ports and all terminals of CONCOR spread across the length and breadth of the country. MMLP, Kathuwas has approximate 1,00,000 Sq. Mtrs, of concrete block paving for rail handling and container stacking.

MMLP, Kathuwas has two EXIM warehouses of 3500 Sq. Mtrs. each and one Domestic warehouse of 3500 Sq. Mtr. Container trains can move in double stack between Kathuwas and Mundra & Pipavav. The Terminal has 3 lane road connectivity to the serving State Highway (Kund Behror road) as well as Rewari Narnaul road. MMLP Kathuwas is envisaged to be a major Container Trans-shipment Hub for the ICDs of the Northern Belt and will be connected by Rail & Road to the smaller nodes in a Hub & Spoke Model, thus, promoting an integrated development of the Road & Rail network. The MMLP will serve a Catchment area of approximately 150-200 Kms. radius which includes South West Haryana specially, Gurgaon, Manesar, Rewari & Northern Rajasthan with focus on Bhiwadi & Alwar. Equipped to handle 0.5 Million TEUs to begin-with and with the provision for future expansion, the facility has been conceived as a Multi-Modal-Freight-Terminal for bulk, break-bulk & containerized traffic.

It will facilitate efficient and cost-effective services like Cargo aggregation & dis-aggregation, Inter-Modal-Transfer, Sorting, Packing & Re-packing and Value-added-services, that will make InterModal-Transfer to Rail attractive in the supply chain of various types of customers. Besides having infrastructure to cater to the up-coming Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) in future, this MMLP will also be looking at handling wide variety of services such as Tank Farms for Liquid Cargo, Auto-Car Rakes, Specialized Warehouses for Value-Added services, Silos and customized facilities for cargo such as Cement, Food Grains etc.

The core focus in developing this facility has been in providing the best possible service to the customers in-line with the vision of encouraging the concept of ‘ease of doing business.’ Since the inception of the Terminal, the facility will have full-fledged Customs Single-Window-Clearance with Electronic Filing and On-line Tracking & Tracing of Containers. This is one of the many future endeavours that CONCOR, befitting its Navratna Status intends to make in the next few years, being an active partner in the growth of the country’s economy.

IndianBureaucracy.com wishes the very best.

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