IIFT MBA (PT) 2010-13; Roll No. 20
Devender Singh
IIFT MBA (PT) 2010-13; Roll No. 20
CONCOR: ICD, DADRI PORT VISIT REPORT Introduction |
ICD Dadri ( Inland Container Depot Dari ) was set up in 2004 to facilitate the inland transportation .It is the second largest ICD of CONCOR located at Greater Noida (UP)near Dadri railway station. ICD Dadri is fully functional and caters to both EXIM (Export/Import) & Domestic cargo. The Container Corporation of India (Concor) operates the country’s largest inland container depot (ICD) at Dadri in Uttar Pradesh. Concor is a Railway PSU. The Dadri ICD has been designed to handle 1 million TEUs (twenty feet equivalent units) of containerised cargo. It has the capacity of 4 lakh containers, so far the largest in the country and supersedes Delhi’s Tughlakabad ICD. The Dadri ICD is spread over 110 hectares of land.
The ICD Dadri complex is a mega terminal spread over 110 hectares, connected by six railway lines, designed to handle 5,00,000 twenty-foot TYT W equivalent units(TEUs) per annum in the first phase with a possibility to enhance the capacity to 1million TEUs per annum.
FACTS:
Location * Adjacent to Dadri Railway Station of North Central Railway on Delhi-Howrah rail route. * 33 km from New Delhi station and 42 kms from TKD. * Connected to entire BG rail network of Indian Railway. * Road connectivity through Surajpur – Dadri road which links ICD with Grans Trunk Road (2.4 km away) as well as NOIDA. * A wide network of roads to facilitate vehicular movement incorporated in the Master Plan 2021 of the Greater Noida Authority. * 24 hrs free access to the terminal with absolutely no traffic restrictions.
This ICD provides the much-needed flexibility to the beleaguered trade in North Indian sending their cargoes through ports other than the heavily congested and still much-preferred Nhava Sheva container terminal in Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT).
Given the congestion at Nhava Sheva,