Existence of Private Container Terminal Operator in India

1. Private CTO’s
Past Present & Future
By:
Apurv, Aman, Mridul,
Prateek, Charles,
Varun
MBA ITL-II Semester

2. The Policy
• January 5, 2006: MoR announced its new container train
policy.
• Two earlier initiatives were taken in 1994 and 2004, failed.
• Open to all Indian companies, including subsidiaries of
foreign companies registered in India.
• Minimum annual turnover of INR 1 billion.
• The validity for permission was for 20 years, further
extendable to another 10 years.
• IR network was classified and grouped into four categories.

3. Category Classification
Category Areas of Operation Registration Fee
I
JNP/Mumbai Port - National Capital Region rail corridor and beyond. This
category will also include all domestic traffic.
INR 500 million
(Automatically
includes all Four
Categories)
II
Rail corridors serving JNP/Mumbai Port and its hinterland in other than
National Capital Region and beyond. This category will also include all
domestic traffic except on category I routes.
INR 100 million
III
Rail corridors serving the ports of Pipavav, Mundra, Chennai/Ennore,
Vizag and Kochi and their hinterland. This category will also include all
domestic traffic except on category I routes.
INR 100 million
IV
Rail corridors serving other ports like Kandla, New Mangalore, Tuticorin,
Haldia/Kolkata, Paradip and Mormugao and their hinterland and all
domestic traffic routes. This category will also include all domestic traffic
except on category I routes.
INR 100 million

4. List of Operators
• Adani Logistics Ltd
• CONCOR (Govt.)
• Container Rail Road Services
• CWC (Govt.)
• Freightstar
• Gateway Rail Freight Ltd
• Hind Terminals
• India Infrastructure and
Logistics
• Reliance Infrastructure
• SMART
• Boxtrans (India) Logistics Services
• Pipavav Railway Corporation Ltd
(PRCL) (JV, Govt.)
• TransRail Logistics Ltd
• Innovative B2B Logistics Solutions
• KRIBHCO Infrastructure Ltd.
• Arshiya Rail Infrastructure

5. BOXTRANS (India)
Logistics Services
• Unit of J. M. BAXI & CO. (India's premier shipping services
company)
• 12 racks of 45 wagons each having capacity of 90 TEUs.
• 540 wagons have been deployed and 900 in next fiscal.
• First ICD is coming up at Sonepat, Haryana.
• Planning to introduce specialized containers such as Tank
containers and Open Top containers.
• DOMESTIC SERVICES: 3 Major Route.
• INTERNATIONAL SERVICES: 2 Exim Routes.
• Rail-Road, Rail-Road-Ship, Rail-Ship services are also offered.

6. ARSHIYA RAIL
INFRASTRUCTURE
• Business unit of gulf based Arshiya International.
• Currently operates 6 racks of full wagon capacity.
• Handles 2430 tons per rack.
• Provides specialised containers according to clients need.
• Also operates FTWZ in khurja.
• ICD-KHURJA is the only private ICD in the country to have
exclusive connectivity with 6 lane private rail siding.
• Container yard has a throughput capacity of 120,000
TEU’s/annum.

7. Freightstar
• Freightstar is a subsidiary of middle east based ETA Star
Group.
• Provides multimodal logistics solution for EXIM trade.
• 9 EXIM circuits currently operated by Freightstar trains.
• DOMESTIC: Provides multimodal transportation service.
• Rakes: 45 wagon long rake has a capacity to carry 90 TEUs.
• Containers: Fleet of over 500 ISO High cube 20` Containers.
• Logistics Center: logistics services for Exim and Domestic
Cargo.

8. Adani Logistics Ltd.
• ALL is a Subsidiary of Adani Group
• Also involved in Port & SEZ, Bunkering, warehousing
(Maritime and Logistics sector).
• Rail terminal: Patli (Punjab), Kishangarh (Rajasthan), Mundra
(Gujrat).
• Holding capacity: 3,52,000 TEUs annually. (Handled around
1,47,006 TEUs in 2012.)
• CBU transportation in Containers by rail-road mode.
• Provides ICD and Operations facilitation to other CTOs at
Adani Logistics Park (ALP).

9. Container Rail Road
Services Private Limited
• CRRS is a business unit of DP World group.
• 7 CRRS EXISTING CIRCUITS.
• 2 CRRS AD-HOC CIRCUITS
• INTRODUCING 2 NEW CIRCUITS & 5 CIRCUITS are PLANNED.
• CRRS has sharing and swapping agreement with CONCOR
between Ludhiana and JNPT.
• Plan to increase number of racks from 7 to 22 in next two
years.

10. Innovative B2B logistics
• Unit of Bagadiya Shipping & Bothara Brothers (P) Ltd.
• First Private Container Trains operator to start operations.
• Strategic Alliance with CWC, operating container trains on
the EXIM route of JNPT to the NCR and operating some
CWCs rail terminals.
• 3 ICD at Kanech, Sahnewal, Ludhiana.
• 3 Rail Linked terminals coming up at Sahnewal (Ludhiana,
Punjab), Raipur (Chhattisgarh) and Rourkela (Orissa).
• Currently operating 12 racks.

11. IndiaLinx
• IILPL Previously JV of APL and HIPE.
• In February 2015 APL Logistics was taken over by Kintetsu
World Express (KWE) as brand name of “IndiaLinx”.
• Currently operates 18 rakes.
• Annual capacity of around 200,000 TEU’s
• Regular services from 9 ICD’s in NCR, Ludhiana, Kanpur and
Hyderabad to the ports of Nhava Sheva, Mundra and
Pipavav.
• Plans are to expand capacity to at least 25 trains within the
next two years

12. Sical Multimodel and Rail
Transport Ltd.
• Part of Sical Logistics Ltd. acquired by Coffee Day Group in
2011.
• SMART owns 7 rakes of 45 BLC wagons.
• 1,811 owned and leased containers.
• Building 2 rail linked terminals at Bangalore and Chennai.
• Handles more than 8000 TEUs (Containers) per annum.
• SMART working in tandem with other operators offers
shared train services.

13. TransRail Logistics Ltd.
• Parent company DARCL (Delhi Assam Roadways Corporation Ltd.)
• Owned 2 container train racks for services.
• Also provide open wagons (BOXN), closed wagons (BCN) and car
wagons (NMG) services.

14. Gateway Rail Freight Ltd.
• Subsidiary company of Gateway Distriparks (NSE: GDL)
• 7 locations: 3 ports, 3 ICDs, 1 domestic terminal.
• 500,000+ TEUs handling capacity.
• Owns-operates a fleet of 24 racks, largest fleet among Private CTOs.
• Also provide refrigerated container facilities for perishable goods.
• 194 EXIM services to and from the terminals a month.

15. Hind Terminals
• Parent company is Sharaf Group (UAE) and MSC Agency.
• Operates Container Freight Stations, Inland Container Depots
• HTPL operates 21 trains connecting 6 major ICDs.
• Development of rail linked Inland container depots in South, East,
Central and North India with proximity to the proposed Dedicated Rail
freight corridors.

16. MORE About CTOs
• IR provides ATT and Premium ATT for CTOs.
• With 30% Rail Share more then 11 MTEUs with 360 single stack trains
per day is projected by 2019-20.
• Double Stack container trains operations is major benefit for CTOs
and likely to increase in future.
• CTOs offers
 first and last mile connectivity
 new routes
 door to door solutions
 Customized container

17. Haulage Charges
• IHC, the transportation charges to and from ICD/CFS to sea port of
loading or vice versa.
• IHC vary as per location depending on the distances and other cost
parameters.
• IHC is collected by Carrier while releasing B/L for Export shipments,
and when issuing Delivery Order in case of Import shipments.
• Charges for private CTOs depend upon the IR freight decision.
• Easy calculator provided by IR on www.fois.indianrail.gov.in.
• Basic freight according to wagon or train load can be calculated.

18. Refrences
• Container Train Operators in India: Problems and Prospects by Rachna
Gangwar & G. Raghuram, IIM-A.
• www.fois.indianrail.gov.in
• www.acto.org.in
• http://www.pianc.org/downloads/oncourse/bulletin126b.pdf
• http://www.iritm.indianrailways.gov.in/uploads/files/13669646758
94-Container.pdf
• Different companies official website.

19. Any queries?