Online workshop with tea producers, exporters, and importers held at ICD-Amingaon

GUWAHATI: Container Corporation of India Ltd. (CONCOR) on Thursday held an online workshop with the tea producers, exporters, CHAs, importers and shipping lines. Customs officers posted at ICD-Amingaon were also participants. Chairman-cum-Managing Director (CMD) CONCOR presided over the meet.

In the meeting a number of issues were discussed ranging from the possibility of connecting the ICD to the ports on the west coast and reduction in freight and other costs.

Indian Tea Association (ITA) gave a very encouraging picture of tea production in the current financial year and expressed the desire of the exporters to reach out to the new markets in the central Asia & Russia. Warehousing, Transit time and other standard measures to make the logistics more efficient were discussed threadbare.

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