Balmer Lawrie Awaits Cpt Consent For Warehouses

The public sector unit had recently applied for land on lease from the CPT and

and the matter is currently being scrutinised by the port trust's estate department.

The establishment of these warehouses will be part of the Rs 6-crore investment plan on infrastructure development, which commenced with the setting up of the container freight station in 1994.

Although the company had run into trouble with the CPT union, during the commissioning of the freight station, senior company officials are positive that this application will be cleared smoothly.

The problem had been resolved only after the company agreed to make a formal deposit of Rs 25 lakhs to the port trust.

 

Each warehouse is expected to cover an area of 2,250 square meters and will be used for storing import and export cargo.

As cargo, Balmier Lawrie handles machinery parts, synthetic rags, raw rubber from Birla Tyres, scrap from SAIL and major orders from Tata Cummins.

The company's future plans also include the acquisition of its own handling equipment.

This will lower the expenses of the company. At present, we use hired equipment, the company freight container station's assistant general manager, P K Kanungo told Business Standard.

The company uses containers with a capacities of 20 feet equivalent units (TEU) and 40 feet equivalent units (FEU).

The TEU containers are for heavy goods like steel and granite, while the FEU containers will be utilised for carrying light goods like tea and cotton garments.

The station has a handling capacity of 10,000 containers annually.