Discount for transporting vehicles at ports

An announcement is made by the Shipping Ministry that all the major ports will provide a discount of 80% for two years on vessel related charges and costal related charges for costal transportation of vehicles through Ro-Ro ships.

According to the Ministry, in order to make this discount sustainable for the Shipping Service Providers, the major ports will also carry out intensive marketing for demand generation. Under the earlier scheme, coastal vessels including Ro-Ro vessels used to get a discount of 40% over that of foreign going vessels.

"With increase in discount to 80%, it is expected that the Shipping Service Providers will be able to attract more auto-mobile cargo through the coastal route and de-congest the already congested roads and railways and also make the Ro-Ro ship service operations more sustainable," the Ministry added.