The port will earn nearly Rs 5 lakh per day from a single ship.
Kollam: The Kochi-Kollam cargo ship service to be flagged off in the first week of January will give a big boost to the cashew industry in Kollam. The first ship from Africa will carry 30 containers of raw cashew and dock at Kochi by December 31. These will be carried to Kollam port in smaller ships which will become a weekly cargo service.
The port will get an income of nearly Rs 5 lakh per day from a ship as rents and other charges. “The ships from other parts of the world, including Africa, will anchor at Kochi and the cashew will be carried to Kollam in smaller ships. Earlier we had ships carrying tiles and other materials. Initially, we plan to conduct the service once in two weeks and later it will be operated on a weekly basis. Presently, the goods from Tuticorin and Kochi are carried through road which is expensive,” Captain Abraham V. Kuriakose, Port officer, told DC.
The port authorities have reached agreements with the shipping companies for the smooth operation of the cargo service between Kollam and Kochi.
A ship, ‘Industrial Century,’ laden with raw cashew from the African sub-continent had docked at the Kollam port in September. The ship contained 5456 tonnes of raw cashew from Guinea Bissau for processing at various cashew factories in Kollam.
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