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Old 25th September 2016, 12:03   #1
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Kochi Port receives its 1st car carrier ship

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KOCHI: Car carrier ship MV Dresden will be arriving at the Cochin Port on Monday. Dresden is the first car carrying ship to conduct service between ports in India.

The car carrier has the circuit of Ennore-Cochin-Kandla-Cochin-Ennore, connecting the automobile production hubs in Tamil Nadu in the East coast and Gujarat and Haryana in the West coast. The ship, which has 13 decks and the capacity to carry 4,300 cars, will be landing 500 cars in Kochi.
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That's great news for Cochin Port. Does this translate to faster deliveries to customers for cars from Tamilnadu and Gujarat? Or is it better only in terms of economics?
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That's great news for Cochin Port. Does this translate to faster deliveries to customers for cars from Tamilnadu and Gujarat? Or is it better only in terms of economics?
I would love to know how much the Kerala Headload Workers will charge for unloading these cars?
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I would love to know how much the Kerala Headload Workers will charge for unloading these cars?
Though the cars will be driven out, they will ask for "Nokku kooli'.
"Nokku kooli' is the Malayalam word for the fees sought by them for doing nothing but watching.

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Re: Kochi Port receives its 1st car carrier ship

First call of a car carrier at Cochin Port

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Source : https://www.facebook.com/KochiSkyHigh/

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I would love to know how much the Kerala Headload Workers will charge for unloading these cars?
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Though the cars will be driven out, they will ask for "Nokku kooli'.
"Nokku kooli' is the Malayalam word for the fees sought by them for doing nothing but watching.
Yes, it went like what we predicted.

There were problems galore for unloading of cars and a ship MV Dresden skipped Kochi port due to problems with unloading workmen and it took a week to settle things.

A settlement was reached by agreeing for deployment of equal number of drivers by the clearing agency and equal number of workmen of the head-load workers union. The ship returned on Monday.

Needless, to say that the union guys will watch and take money while the cars are driven out.

News link: http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/...cle9289911.ece

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Does this service still exist? The ship was chartered by the group which runs Cafe Coffee Day. They are related to the SICAL group, AFAIK.



Volvo cars used to be imported through Cochin earlier, in containers. But, due to better demand in other cities, the imports moved to Chennai.
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