New Delhi: Until a few weeks ago Patton International, a technical goods company, moved more than half of its container from Kolkata to Mumbai to export to the US due to lack of containers on the east coast.
“This is a nightmare, no one wants to do it.
Even though it has a port in the city, you still have to do all this,” said Sandeep Goyal, who led the operation, added that the situation had increased a little over the past few weeks because of the effort taken by the Trust port taken.
While globally, the exporter has graplating with a lack of containers and a massive surge in the reopening post-covid, this seems to be much worse in the eastern front because items must be transported through the road to Mumbai, Visakhapatnam or Cochin to find shipping lines leading to the destination right.
The supply chain that is tense throughout the world is seen as one of the factors that add to inflationary pressure, especially in the US.
The problem is seen in numbers.
The latest data of the Indian Association Ports shows that during April-October, container traffic in Kolkata remains 18% lower than the 2019 level, when the national average for all ports increases more than 8%.
Haldia Docks is just about successfully following the prepandemi level (see graph).
From Kolkata, items are sent to Colombo or Singapore before they go to their final destination.
And, the draft in Kolkata often plays a role.
So, when the crisis container starts, the shipping line takes an empty container from the port to meet the requirements at other purposes, until the port authority is dropped on it.
While the center is trying to solve problems, government officials and businesses recognize that this problem cannot be resolved for several months.
Exporters in the east hope that acute deficiencies are resolved because they have to spend 10% more.
Tea exporters say transportation costs per container add around Rs 1 lakh and then there are other fees as paid for warehousing, loading and unloading, which adds up to RS 30,000-40,000 others.
“The problem is lacking in western and north of India.
This is an addition to higher shipments,” Mahesh Keyal said, exporter of alloy ferro, which until now pays almost Rs 2,000 tons for shipping goods through Vishakhapatnam.
Now the price is $ 1,400-1,500 to send a container from Kolkata to Chittagong, more than three times the pre-pandemic, Keyal said.
Similarly, the word exporter of tea, shipping containers to CIS countries can cost around $ 11,000, by opposing $ 5,500-6,000 around June.
The worse is that some shipping lines do not take consignment to these countries, resulting in Indian exporters who lose to competitors in Sri Lanka or Kenya.
“Our cargo is full and lying.
We cause interest costs, shipping and cycle of payment we have extended, resulting in higher working capital requirements,” exporter said.