{Leto automate ship- Ieandestuction thecompany Areusing on tkng the web as [icgalpartoftrmatichan- Adberbaionsratey, KSH Distriparks to set up Pune’s 4 th ICD, at Talegaon RANJANTRAGHAVAN AUGUSTS mnewilsoonhaveits our inland Container Depot(ICD), a ie ‘aon, promotedby aKSHDis- trips Pt Limited Expected tobe funetionalinamonths time, the ICD willooktolever agzonitslocationto greitthe requirededge over the existing thee, as Teagan isa non-ce troianne, [Nikhil Opel the manager of the ICD terminal at Talegaon ssid the group was banking on the location “I have nothing special up my sleeve except for the location. alegaon anime portant node," he's. KSH is known to be a Kar- ata based group, which has ‘ied up with foreign collabora torsforthisICD. Owalsaibe- cause of a ‘non-disclosure ‘clause he was not ina postion toghe further details about the collaboration. At pre- sent, thereisnodenyingthe fact ‘that most ofthe trade is stil Inrgely dependetondiectaus- tomdearance atthe INPTport at Nhava Sheva. Out of the 10000-12000 containers of ere ore zeren + onner oieiel 321 if fe) Ror eek ori) IGHT TIMINGS cargo generated fom Pune re ‘gen, only about 3000 contin cesservicedbythe thee Inlind Container Deporsinthecity—at (Chinchvad, Pimpriand Dighi “ThenewICDwileame upin ‘anoctroizone, which willbe benefit the promoters. More than money, twill nrc imgthe delay forthe trades ‘moirequiresalotof document tion and processing,” said Rajdeep Bhargavas, president of the Pune Custome House ‘Agents. Bhargivascidtbe new ICD is also wel placed logis callyonthe Bombsy-Pune road. “They shouldbe able to attract ‘cargo from new companies ike ‘GM, Volkswagen, JCB that are ‘coming up in Chakan and Tle gon," he said. Asof now, ess than 20 per cent of the cargo enerated here ingetting dered stety ICDs The distance from, Pune to Nhava Sheva is about 125 km. “In Ahmedabad or even Nagpur, the portisat east 0 km ava. Thisisone ofthe reasons why the ety ICDs ate under-isod, as trader pre fogoto the port iret,” said Hemant Shirwalkar, manager, Forbes and Company Limited, representative ofthe shipping line APL. which transports the ‘cargo fromthe pot the desti- nation, But Shitwalksidthat thenew ICD wouldstilbeanin completesolution asitoffersn0 rallservies “Alloptions should pemade ale tothe rade in oneplae, otherwise itsmerelya fragmented solution,” he sti Venkatesh Rajulu, ‘manager container terminal at CON- COR, Chinctvad agreed that thedhsenc of ectroivouldben- eft the new ICD. Pratl Tiler, dicector Dymic Logististhat runs the Dighi ICD said that it wasironialthatanew ICD was being promoted when existing infrastructure is being unde utbed. “Welad to procure sn [NOC fromthe exiting ICDDbe- fore we were allowed to setup ‘our facility, I wonder how the castosallewed thse faiity tocome up"hesit,