KATHMANDU, AUG 08 -
Interstate Multimodal Transport (IMT) in association with TLPL Shipping and Logistics, a subsidiary of Transworld Group Company, has started offering Thru B/L service—a direct shipping service up to Birgunj Dry Port — to domestic importers. The service is expected to reduce the cost and time of shipping of imported goods.
Thru B/L service, also called Direct Bill of Lading, is a compliance which takes care of entire procedures involved in the import of goods from overseas countries.
RB Rauniyar, chairman of IMT, said the service would take care of the entire procedures — from delivery of goods from exporting traders abroad until they are received by traders here in Nepal. IMT claims that they have introduced the service keeping in mind the growing demand from importers.
Traders usually have to undergo long procedures, including lengthy documentation to clear imported goods in India’s Kolkata port besides managing shipping transport and dealing with customs.
Rauniyar said the service would reduce hassles that importers would have to face if they carried out the process on their own. “The service will make them avail the imported goods directly at the dry port at the nominal cost,” he said.
Ashok Temani, president of Birgunj Chamber of Commerce said it could benefit traders as it would reduce the cost and make their products price-competitive.
The service is also expected to increase transaction at the Birgunj Dry Port. Purushottam Ojha, former secretary at the Ministry of Commerce and Supplies, said the efficient mechanism and documentation process that the service provides could help enhance the utilisation of the dry port, thereby increasing trading.
Source: http://www.ekantipur.com/2012/08/08/business/imt-starts-thru-bl-service/358449/
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