September 08, 2008

Record unloading of HR steel coils at Kandla Port

Exim News Service reported that a record 30,863.42 tonnes of hot rolled steel coils were discharged in less than 24 hours from the vessel mv Great Summit at Kandla Port.

Of the total, about 4,000 tonnes were discharged by the shore crane belonging to AV Joshi, with the balance unloaded by the 4 vessel cranes. The importers of the cargo, which was loaded from Shanghai port in China, were PSL Ltd with 14,132 tonnes and Welspun Gujarat Stahl Rohern Limited with 16,730 tonnes.

Facilitating this achievement as vessel agent was Parekh Marine Agencies Private Limited. While the stevedoring was handled by Chotalal Premji Stevedores Private Limited, the charterer was Korea’s Samsun Logix Corporation.

According to a Parekh Marine release, this achievement was possible due to the coordinated efforts of the Kandla Port authorities, port labor, importers and transporters.