Kolkata Port Trust(KoPT) on Thursday said the Ro-Ro (Roll on/Roll Off) export shipment of 240 trucks from Kolkata port to Bangladesh was flagged off and transport through the sea route is expected to reduce travel time.
These trucks, manufactured by Tata Motors at its Jamshedpur and Pantnagar plants would be shipped to the neighbouring country's Mongla port in the vessel MV IDM Doodle.
The trucks were previously shipped through land route, to and from Petrapol border.
Appealing to all automobile manufacturers to use waterways for transporting their automobiles, KoPT Chairman Vinit Kumar said the port would try to carry on such significant venture in "deliberate, planned and sustained manner" so that more interested automakers may join this new trade lane in the near future.
KoPT expects to regularise this service in the coming months.
In October this year, Ashok Leyland had used similar Ro-Ro services for transporting a shipment of 185 trucks from Chennai to Mongla.
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