The ABG Kandla Container Terminal Ltd (ABGKCTL), op-erated by ABG Group at Kandla Port, has once again proved to be a preferred facility for coastal movement, with Jindal Waterways Ltd commencing a regular container service.
Jindal Waterways, through Jindal Vector, had launched liner services in February 2008 and has already emerged as a major coastal carrier. The company provides total logistics solutions with a high-frequency, high reliability service, port-to-port and door-to-door in container and bulk.
The coastal service from Kandla serves domestic cargo movement between Kandla and Cochin so as to attract cargo from Northern India to South Indian destinations. The vessel under this service, m.v. Jindal Kamakshi, made her maiden call at ABGKCT on September 4.
Jindal Vector has deployed 3 vessels in this service with the port rotation Kandla, Cochin, Tuticorin, Kandla.
The service frequency to Kandla is once every 5 days.
Jindal Vector owns and operates short-sea shipping container and break-bulk vessels along the coast and the Subcontinent. Plying between the ports of Gujarat and South India, Jindal Vector operates modern containerships sized right for the Indian coastline, providing high-frequency and high-reliability container services between the ports of Kandla, Pipavav, Cochin and Tuticorin.
In order to commemorate the maiden call of m.v. Jindal Kamakshi, a brief function was arranged on board the vessel at the terminal, during which a memento was presented to the Master of vessel by the chief guest, Mr M. A. Bhaskarachar, Deputy Chairman of Kandla Port Trust.
In a brief address, Mr Bhaskarachar said that Kandla Port was "very happy to receive such new services and the Port is very well equipped to provide good service to all customers. I also take this opportunity to wish Jindal, ABGKCTL team and the vessel agent, Seabridge Maritime Agencies, all the very best."
Among the others present on the occasion were, from Jindal Waterways, Capt. Ashwin Advani, VP-Business Development, Mr Kiran Nandre, DGM-Business Development; from Seabridge Maritime Agencies, Mr Dharamshi Mitesh, General Manager, Mr Vijay Patel, Operations Manager, Mr Manoj Mishra, Senior Executive-Marketing, Mr V. Prakash Rao, Senior Executive, Operations; and from ABGKCTL, Mr S. Senthilkumar, Terminal Manager, Capt. Manish Kumar Mittal, Senior Manager (Operations), Mr Anil A. Kumar, Executive (Marketing), Mr Paras Vyas, Officer (Marketing), Mr Vijay Selvan, Planning Superintendent, and Mr Subramanian, Deputy Manager (Planning).
A total of 133 TEUs were handled during the call.
According to the ABGKCTL management, the terminal has been positioned as the most preferred facility for coastal, Middle East and Karachi destinations. It is confident that by attracting more such services, the terminal will continue on its steady growth path and exponentially increase its volumes in the time to come.
The management has expressed a deep sense of gratitude to the Jindal Vector team for extending its wholehearted support to the terminal and has assured it of continued excellent services.
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