Deliberate planning for space allocation and inland transportation helps to offer cost-effective solution, First time rail services were used for land bridging for apple rootstocks (saplings)
GEODIS Overseas Pvt. Ltd, a part of SNCF Logistics, moves its maiden shipment of reefer containers within India from Mundra port to Inland Container Depot in the North of India. This was the first of such consignment handled by GEODIS to use rail services as a land bridge transportation.
The GEODIS India team worked with the private rail operator and the ocean carrier together, to arrive at a sustainable rail haulage solution with the delivery much closer to the plantation area – a value preposition that won the business for GEODIS India. Geodis team helped the customer to move the reefer containers to ICD Garhi in North India via gateway port of Mundra, which was only 710 Kms far from the plantation area. Earlier the customer was getting the cargo at the Nhava Sheva port which was 2200 kilometers from the plantation area. GEODIS India has provided the customer with the solution with much economical transportation and shorter transit time.
The scope of works for GEODIS was involved with the door-to-port transportation for the customer including pick-up from the nursery in Italy to the port (ICD) delivery in India. Earlier the GEODIS team in Italy had efficiently handled pickup from mountainous area with the temperature controlled trucks and timely delivered the consignment to the carrier for onwards journey.
“The move will take us a leap forward for integrated transportation solutions for perishable items, the flawless execution of the consignment shows our capability to manage and deliver such consignment with ease. As we are looking at India as a future market, we will add more customized solutions for our customers in the subcontinent.” said Leif Voelcker, Cluster Managing Director South Asia.
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