Future Forward: Capt Tyagi discusses SCI’s container capacity enhancement goals

MUMBAI : Chairman and Managing Director Captain Binesh Kumar Tyagi stated that, Shipping Corporation of India Ltd (SCI) will initiate action to buy four more second hand container ships of various sizes to add to the one for which it had floated a tender earlier this year in a bid to help the nation’s exporters tide over the scarcity of space and lack of containers for shipping their goods,

Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways announced that SCI will buy container ships in a meeting Shri Piyush Goyal, the Union Minister of Commerce and Industry called, on 18 September to find solutions for the problems faced by exporters,

Capt Tyagi said that, they want to increase the container cargo carrying capacity of SCI and they had chartered a nearly 9,000 TEU capacity ship on 5 September and inducted it into the service that SCI is running jointly with MSC on the India-Europe sector which will help the Indian exporters because the service is originating from India. They are working on this; some actions are already taken whereas some other actions will initiate as instructed by the Ministry