Container logistics operation at Cochin Port gets a leg-up

: The digital container tracking solution of DMICDC Logistics Data Services (DLDS) Friday brought within its ambit Cochin Port to streamline its container logistics operations.

Logistics Data Bank (LDB), the single window tracking solution that has improved operations in container logistics, launched its service at the ports of Chennai, Visakhapatnam and Krishnapatnam on November 1, a press release said here.

With the inclusion of Cochin Port, the ICT-based service of LDB has become operational across seven ports, the release said.

"The launch of operations of LDB at the Cochin Port, one of the largest in the country, is going to create visibility and transparency in the way operations happen. All the stakeholders in the supply chain operations will benefit with such an initiative," the release quoted chief executive officer and managing director of Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corporation Alkesh Sharma as saying.

LDB, which currently handles 70 per cent of the container volume in the country, began its operations in the western corridor at the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), and extended its container tracking services to Hazira and Mundra ports of Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone (APSEZ), the release said.

The extension of the service from LDB to the southern corridor follows a milestone of 10 million EXIM containers tracked by its single window interface, it said.

The container tracking services would boost efficiency among supply chain operations through advanced information communications technologies, the release quoted chaiperson of Cochin Port M Beena as saying.

"Cochin Port is one of the busiest ports in the country and the introduction of LDB operations will bring in more efficiency within the process of exporting or importing shipment of goods and would thus benefit the stakeholders in the supply chain logistics down the line," she said.