Looks like Corporate India is keen on tapping the potential of inland waterways to reach the customers faster and to save on costs.
After the successful transportation of cargo containers from Kolkata to Varanasi earlier this year, the shipping of 16 twenty feet equivalent units (TEUs) of container cargo belonging to food majors PepsiCo India and Emami Agrotech Ltd from Kolkata to Patna’s Gaighat IWT terminal through river Ganga next week will mark a landmark in the country’s inland water transport sector, said the release.
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