India’s second-largest container gateway Chennai Port Authority announced a new one-year concessional program for vessel-related charges levied on mainline calls. Port officials said that this revision, replacing concessional rates announced in January 2010, would remain active through Dec. 31, 2013. “As the previous was advantageous only to a few mainline container vessel operators, the new concessions has been formulated taking into consideration the number of voyages, volume and gross registered tons of vessels,” the authority said.
Here’s the carrier draw: to remain competitive with other ports in the region, Chennai’s concessions range from 20 to 55 percent on prescribed service fees applied by the port authority. And they want carriers to bulk-up their volumes: “The quantum of concessions would be worked out based on the total mainline container volume achieved by a particular service run by individual mainline vessel operator or service partner during the year linking with GRT of vessels,” it said.
With the country’s surging public sector international investment incentives, India’s serious about becoming a truly open, fully engaged marketplace. Their timing’s terrific, as nations globally will benefit from expansion a billion-consumer base can provide.
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