Strengthening Transport Connectivity in

South Asia

Sanjay Swarup

Director (International Marketing & Operations)

CONCOR, INDIA

New Delhi, India, March 2017

Multimodal Infrastructure in India • India has around 62 Dry Ports already operational.

Some more are under construction, figure likely to reach around 85 by 2019

• Out of these 50 are operated by CONCOR, rest by other operators. Almost all CONCOR facilities are rail linked.

• CONCOR has 273 high speed rakes for Container transportation. Other CTOs own around 135 rakes

• CONCOR has deployed state of the art handling equipments at its facilities

• All CONCOR locations are linked through VSAT

CONCOR’s PAN INDIA PRESENCE

Regional Connectivity • EAST: Rail connectivity between India and

Bangladesh is at 5 locations, out of which following three are active-

1. Gede- Darshana

2. Petrapole- Benapole

3. Singhabad- Rohanpur

• NORTH: Nepal has 4 Dry ports, out of which only one is rail connected-

Birgunj (rail connected), Biratnagar, Bhairwa & Kakarbhita

Regional Connectivity…

• SOUTH: Connectivity through regular feeder services from Chennai, Tuticorin & Krishnapatnam ports to Sri Lankan ports

• WEST: Goods and Passenger trains are regularly running between India & Pakistan

CONCOR’s experience: Managing Terminal in a foreign country

• CONCOR operates Inland Clearance Depot (ICD) at Birgunj, Nepal through a JV company Himalayan Terminal Private Limited (HTPL)

• CONCOR is lead partner in the JV with 40% share

• JV has two Nepali partners and one Shipping line

• NITDB has given the assets of ICD on lease to HTPL for Operations and Management

• Lease Agreement from 2004-2014. Fresh agreement in Jan 2015 for 5+5 years after global tender

• Terminal handles Container and Breakbulk rakes

• Third country cargo as well as Bilateral traffic

OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE CONTAINERIZED CARGO

Year Nos. of train handled 20 ft. 40 ft. Total TEUs

2004-05 55 2835 370 3575

2005-06 130 7437 785 9007

2006-07 152 8710 1065 10840

2007-08 163 11260 1323 13906

2008-09

2009-10

175

207

10382

12714

2160

2451

14702

17616

2010-11 222 13242 3099 19440

2011-12 209 12754 2945 18644

2012-13 233 15284 2785 20854

2013-14 202 13040 2425 17890

2014-15 253 16642 2835 22312

2015-16 267 17242 3264 23770

Total 2268 141542 25507 192556

OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE BREAK BULK

Year Nos. of Rake Weight (MT)

2005-06 11 22804

2006-07 20 46225

2007-08 10 22975

2008-09

2009-10

7

71

18241

177391

2010-11 128 326892

2011-12 132 330817

2012-13 180 450965

2013-14 240 595477

2014-15 273 682500

2015-16 362 905000

Total 1434 3579287

Container train at Birgunj

ICD BIRGUNJ CFS

Open Yard Storage

CFS – 203 X 38.5 Mtrs

Storage inside CFS

IRON & STEEL HANLING AT ICD

Running International Container Trains

• Running of International Container trains between India and Nepal is governed by Rail Service Agreement signed between India and Nepal in 2004

• It allows running of Container as well as breakbulk trains

• Open for bilateral and third country cargo

• For third country cargo, only Kolkata Port was opened. Recently Visakhapatnam port also opened.

• RSA elaborates in detail the procedure to be followed for Customs examination and clearance

• The details about Customs procedures & documentation, composition of trains, safety & security of trains, loading restrictions, movement rationalization, transport documents, freight charges, detention charges etc. given in RSA

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Mission: Container train on TAR route

• Similar to RSA, Agreements between India-Pakistan and India-Bangladesh may be finalized and signed

• This will provide faster and economical transit of cargo over BG tracks between Bangladesh-India & India-Pakistan going right till Zahedan for transhipment to Standard Gauge wagons

• This will also provide an alternative route of container movement between Asia and Europe, besides Sea route

• There can be a Container train that can work as aggregator/ deaggregator for various Dryports enroute

• This will boost trade ties between countries enroute

• The Container train can be run either on BG stock of IR/CONCOR or Pakistan Railways or Bangladesh Railways on inter-country pooling arrangements basis

• Work can also be entrusted to some International Agency

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CONCOR’s proposal

• All our facilities are on Indian Railways network

• Our facilities near International borders:

Ludhiana: 161 kms from Attari border. Attari to Lahore is around 34 kms

Kolkata: CONCOR facility at Majerhat is 95 kms from Petrapole and Benapole to Dhaka is around 296 kms

• We can have Container protocol with Bangladesh & Pakistan similar to India-Nepal protocol (RSA)

• We are willing to run Container trains across the subcontinent with Kolkata and Ludhiana as Hubs and spokes at Birgunj (Nepal), Attari near Amritsar (Pakistan) and Tuticorin (connection through feeder services to Sri Lanka)

CONCOR’s proposal…

• Our trains can run from Kamlapur ICD in Dhaka to Zahedan (Iran) via Kolkata, Delhi, Ludhiana and Dryports of Pakistan. It will connect all the dryports enroute acting as a “Shuttle service”. Containers can be unloaded and loaded at the dryports. This flexibility is not there in Ocean transportation.

• Cost wise also it will be economical: Although Ocean freights are down now a days, but overall logistics cost that includes ocean freight and first mile/last mile costs is substantially high.

• Transit time will also be less by this proposed train

Ludhiana to Dhaka (2062 kms)- 24 days through ocean route (LDH-

MDCC-Chittagong-Dhaka), Train: 5-6 days

Ludhiana to Lahore (210 kms)- 15 days through ocean route (LDH-JNPT-Karachi-Lahore), Train: 2 days

THANK YOU

sanjays@concorindia.com