The Kolkata port will undertake four trial runs before the implementation of an agreement on the use of neighbouring Bangladesh\u2019s Chittagong and Mongla ports by India for trade, an official said.<\/p>\n
The initiative will help boost business flow on inland waterways via the Indo-Bangla Protocol route, he said.<\/p>\n
The decision to conduct trial runs was taken after the 13th India-Bangladesh Joint Group of Customs (JSC) meeting held in March, said the official of the Kolkata Port, now rechristened as Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port (SMP).<\/p>\n
It was also decided that ships can carry cargo for both Bangladesh and the north-eastern states of India, he stated.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have been asked to undertake trial runs and it has to be completed within six months. All destinations are in Bangladesh,\u201d SMP chairman Vinit Kumar said.<\/p>\n
The trials will be undertaken on the following routes \u2014 Mongla to Tamabil (a hilly area in Bangladesh\u2019s Sylhet), Tamabil to Chittagong, Chittagong to Sheola (a land border) and Mongla to Bibirbazar.<\/p>\n
\u201cTransit cargo for trial run on Mongla-Tamabil and Mongla-Bibirbazar (land port in Cumilla) routes will depart Kolkata on July 30,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n
Maersk Line India has partnered with SMP to do these two trial runs, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe vessel is expected to reach Mongla on August 5, carrying 16 tonne of iron pipes of Electrosteel Castings Ltd in a container destined to reach Meghalaya using Tamabil-Dawki border points, and 8.5-tonne prefoam in another container for Assam using Bibirbazar-Srimantpur border points,\u201d the Kolkata port official said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis exercise will boost an alternative route through waterways for transportation of coastal containers from Kolkata or Haldia to northeastern states, along with other export-import containers to Bangladesh in the same barge or vessel,\u201d Kumar said.<\/p>\n
The cargo movement from Kolkata port to the northeast states of India through the India-Bangladesh Protocol route will not just reduce transit cost and time but also help develop the economy.<\/p>\n
An agreement and standard operating procedure on the use of Chattogram and Mongla ports for the movement of goods to and from India have been signed by the two countries.<\/p>\n
Kumar said both the Inland Waterways Authority of India and SMP, Kolkata have undertaken several infrastructural development projects that will further smoothen environmental friendly cargo movement via the national waterways to NE states and Bangladesh.
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