In June this year, Concor and Shipping Corporation
of India (SCI) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore business
opportunities for leveraging the advantage of each other’s infrastructure and experience in synergy to offer
seamless and cost-effective end-to-end logistics services to customers under a
single window.
Sanjay Swarup, CMD, Concor stated that coastal
shipping is a very eco-friendly mode of transport. The company had launched the coastal
shipping services pre-Covid in Jan 2019 and had developed some streams from
Gujarat to the South. The service was stopped in 2020 during Covid. “So now we have collaborated with the
Shipping Corporation and very soon, we will be starting coastal movement from
Gujarat to South India and even from South to the eastern side of the country.
So you will hear very soon that we are going to start the coastal movement,”
Swarup recently told investors.
The MoU will enable SCI’s shipping
services to develop Concor’s footprint in overseas locations and also to foray
into the field of coastal and inland waterways trade to offer a wide range of
customisable logistics solutions for the benefit of trade at large.
The commodities identified for the coastal route include waste paper, ceramic tiles,
sanitary ware, soda, cotton bale and consumer durables.