Chennai:
The congestion at Chennai Port is likely to ease next year with port officials and traffic police planning to regulate the container trucks entering Chennai Port.
A senior port official told Express that the container trucks would now have to be regulated outside the port possibly at Eranvur village near Ennore Port.
“Chennai Port officials are going to hold discussion with the additional commissioner of police (Traffic) by the middle of next month to stop these container trucks at Ernavur,” said the official.
This came after the busy stretch in North Chennai from Ennore to Chennai :Port was blocked by container trucks causing hardship to commuters and public and private transport.
“This has been a ongoing problem. Whenever, the ships enter the terminal, every truck operator wants a share of teh cargo as a result they park their vehicles on the stretch so that they can export the cargo as well as return with imported cargo,” said the official.
“We do have separate gates for import cargo and export cargo but due to non cooperation from truck operators it is difficult to implement it,” said the official.
Interestingly, it was in 2014, the customs department has issued a notice where a trailer bound to port has to come via container freight station and after proper documentation has to enter the port. But this could not be adhered to due to the indiscipline of Trailer Owners Association.
Meanwhile, Chennai Port is planning to do away with the manual processing methodology to track the container system and are coming up with RFID ( Radio Frequency Identification) based container tracking system. Interestingly, this has been tested involving container freight station (CFS), custioms and terminal operators.
The system would be place in February next year,” said the official. While, Chennai Port is optimistic that the traffic congestion would be eased, it has to be seen how effectively the authorities implement it
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