First Ever Movement Of Container Cargo On Brahmaputra Begins

First Ever Movement Of Container Cargo On Brahmaputra Begins

• The first ever landmark container cargo consignment set on sail on inland waterways from Haldia Dock Complex (HDC), West Bengal to the Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) terminal at Pandu in Guwahati on 4 November 2019.
• This initiative is line with Government’s focus on improving connectivity to the North Eastern Region (NER).
• The inland vessel MV Maheshwari was flagged off carrying 53 TEUs (containers) of petrochemicals, edible oil and beverage etc on this 12-15 days voyage.
• The 1425 km long route on which first ever containerised cargo movement will take place will be National Waterway-1 (river Ganga), NW-97 (Sunderbans), Indo-Bangladesh Protocol (IBP) route and NW-2 (river Brahmaputra).
• This is the first ever containerised cargo movement on this Inland Water Transport (IWT) route and is expected to establish the technical and commercial viability of IWT mode using these multiple waterways.