The Jawahar Lal Nehru Port Trust has been working on an innovative transport solution to achieve seamless and faster movement of cargo from the port to respective destinations through Direct Port Delivery (DPD). Four successful bidders have won the mandate for five routes- from JNPT to Gujarat, to Goa and Bengaluru, to Nashik, Nagpur, Aurangabad, Indore and Hyderabad, to Ahmednagar and to local regions in and around Mumbai. DPD is increasingly being accepted as the optimal way of transporting cargo directly from the port to the importers and accounts for close to 39 per cent of the total cargo traffic from JNPT at present. About 1600 importers who have opted for DPD mode of transport will benefit from this process.
An exporter or importer will be able to book his cargo sitting in his office, through a technology backed platform. This new transport solution will promote easy co-ordination between port and customers, end to end delivery, faster evacuation of containers from the Port area, 24X7 vehicle tracking container tracking through mobile, and 24x7 customer service.
@EPC World Media
