Co-operative warehouses
These warehouses are owned
managed and controlled by co-operative societies. They provide their members
with warehousing facilities at cheaper rates. Container freight stations CFS/
inland container depots ICDs.
CFSs/ ICD are custom- bonded
facility with public authority status for the handling and storage for
containers. These depots equipped with warehousing space adequate handling
equipment and IT infrastructure. Services of CFS/ICDs include the following:
·
Loading/
unloading
·
Receipt/
dispatch of goods
·
Transit
operations by road/ rail to and from the port
·
Stuffing/
de- stuffing of containers
·
Customs
clearance
·
Consolidation
and desegregation of less than container load LCL cargo
·
Temporary
storage of cargo and containers
·
Repair and
maintenance of containers
·
Refrigerated
warehousing
·
Hub- and-
spoke services
CFS is an off- dock facility
located near the service port. ICD on the other hand is located in the
hinterland. CFSs/ ICDs act as consolidation points, transit storage locations
and ease the compliance procedure with local customs reduce damage/ pilferage
optimize container utilization and reduce transport/ inventory cost.
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Cold storage
A cold storage is a temperature-
controlled storage space and caters to industries such as agriculture
horticulture fisheries and aquaculture, dairy and processed food. The highly
fragmented cold storage market has 5,386 cold storage units with he total
capacity of nearly 23.7 million M.T More than 56% of the capacity is utilized
by potato storage while the rest is used for other commodities. Currently the
Indian cold storage market is valued at Rs 117 billion and is expected to reach
Rs 558 billion by 2015. Sixty- five per cent of the total installed capacity of
cold storage in the country is located in Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. The
key activities involved in cold storages are as follows:
·
Aggregation
·
Sorting
·
Pre- cooling
·
Packaging
from farms to manufacturers
Integrated cold storage
warehousing has huge potential in India. The cold storage system when
supplemented with temperature- controlled transportation connecting farm- level
storage facilities processing units and distribution outlets will not only
improve efficiency but will also solve our problem of wastage of agricultural
products. The cold chains market is dominated by private players despite the
presence of state- owned players. Though the government has pro incentives in
tax and duties to ecourage cold chain players the results are yet to be seen.
In addition cold chain and container- handling facilities should also be
augmented at major sea and airports to target global markets.
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