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International Trade Procedures and Documentation

Notes 6. On .............................. of the containers at the ICD, a representative of the Railways or Road
Carriers, the packages should be tallied with the documents and marks and numbers
compared with reference to the manifest.
7. The clearance of the goods for home consumption from ICD will be on the basis
............................. to be filed by the Importer at the ICD.
8. The ............................ Carriers authorities are responsible for the carriage of transhipment
permit copy and the two copies of the manifest with the container.
9. The Shipping Lines or the shipping Agent should file the .......................... application (in
triplicate) for transhipping the containers by rail/road and file the required bond for
transhipment.
10. Duplicate copy of the .............................. is retained at the ICD and exchange control copy is
returned to exporter.

11.4 Container Corporation of India (CONCOR)

With the increase in containerisation, a separate undertaking under the Indian Railways to
manage the ICDs and CFSs became necessary. While ICDs provide all facilities for effecting
containerised shipments, CFSs are limited only for stuffing into and destuffing of cargoes from
the containers.
The Container Corporation of India Ltd. was constituted as an autonomous public sector
undertaking under the Ministry of Railways in March 1988. The basic objective of CONCOR is to
organise multimodal transport logistics with prime task of facilitating the nation’s foreign
trade. Its operations are directed towards efficient, economical and expeditious handling and
transit of containerised goods, relating to both international and domestic trade traffic.
It works with various agencies and offers services including warehousing, road and rail transport,
palletisation and packing, simplification of documentation and custom formalities. CONCOR
accepts containerised cargoes, issues waybill and coordinates with railways to carry containers
to gateway ports and vice versa. They are the prime coordinating agencies to container traffic.
Setup with an authorised capital of 100 crores and a paid up capital of 65 crores, CONCOR started
functioning from March 1988. CONCOR now functions as a PUBLIC COMPANY under the
Ministry of Railways.

11.4.1 Activities of CONCOR

(i) Spearhead the container revolution in India.
(ii) To build and operate Infrastructure and organise Rail and Road linkages for accelerated
inland penetration of International containers in the country.
(iii) To set up and manage Inland Container Depots (ICDs) and Container Freight Stations
(CFSs) all over the country.
(iv) To act as an effective liaison with all the agencies involved with containerisable trade in India
so as to provide comprehensive services for door-to-door movement of international cargo.

11.4.2 Objective of CONCOR

CONCOR operates on the following objectives:

(i) To develop inter-modal logistics, infrastructure for the fast, efficient and economical
transportation.

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