NEW DELHI: The Logistics Data
Bank’s (LDB) services will soon be extended to all Major Ports in India. The
LDB project’s objective is to ensure greater efficiency in the Country’s
logistics sector through the use of information technology.
Discussions between the Government and the Indian Ports
Association (IPA) in this regard have begun, according to official sources. The
IPA is the Apex Body for India’s Major Ports under the Shipping Ministry’s
supervisory control. Until now, the LDB project covered only the Country’s
Western Logistics corridor.
As part of the LDB project, each container is attached to a Radio
Frequency Identification Tag (RFID) tag and tracked through RFID readers. This,
in turn, helps importers and exporters to track their goods in transit. So far,
about 4.93 million containers (2.34 million import containers and 2.59 million
export containers) have been tagged and de-tagged under the project.
‘To boost foreign trade’
The LDB project was unveiled in July 2016 as an important ‘Ease of
Doing Business’ initiative to boost the Country’s foreign trade and bring about
greater transparency. It helps reduce the overall lead time of container
movement, besides bringing down transaction costs that consignees and shippers
incur.
The project is implemented through a Special Purpose Vehicle
called Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corporation Logistics Data
Services Ltd. (DLDSL) — jointly (50:50) owned by the Delhi Mumbai Industrial
Corridor (DMIC) Trust and Japanese IT services major NEC Corporation.
As part of an initiative to expand the project to ports in South
India, a team from DLDSL toured container port terminals in Chidambaranar,
Krishnapatnam and Katupalli and held discussions with stakeholders there.
Meanwhile, the LDB System has been integrated with the Freight Operations
Information System of railways, sources said, adding that the move will help
users track in-transit rail container movement.
According to the Shipping Ministry, the LDB project covers “the
entire movement through rail or road till the Inland Container Depot and
Container Freight Station.” The service integrates information available with
the agencies across the supply chain to provide detailed, real-time information
within a single window, it said. The DLDSL so far provides “container tracking
services to around 70% of the container traffic in India.” The services include
providing users the ‘average delivery time’ as well as notifications through
SMS and email. The LDB project also provides other services such as ‘congestion
and bottleneck analysis’ as well as ‘performance bench-marking’ that aids the
users to pinpoint supply chain inefficiencies, and in turn help improve the
system.
Source: Dailyshippingtimes.com
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