November, 2011

Longest Railway Bridge In India

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Connects International Container Transshipment Terminal – Vallarpadam With The Main Land

Rail Vikas Nigam Constructed a railway line to the Vallarpadam terminal with a total length of 8.86 km, in which 4.62 km runs above the Vembanad Lake. This bridge has become the longest railway bridge in India. A railway station and electric substation was also constructed at Edappally. The Vallarpadam Port Railway station has been constructed by the Dubai Ports World.

The soil conditions were a challenge that RVNL engineers overcame with great élan. The bridges have been built on 1.2-diametre piles driven to an average depth of 55 metres. The total pile length is 65,000 metres.

Besides, 11,700 tonnes of reinforced steel; 58,000 tonnes of cement; 99,000 cubic metres of metal aggregates; 73,500 cubic metres of sand; 1,27,000 cubic metres of concrete work and 1,54,308 cubic metres of earth work went into building the new railway link.

The Kochi International Container Transshipment Terminal (ICTT), locally known as the Vallarpadam Terminal, is a container trans-shipment facility which is part of the Kochi Port. It is the only trans-shipment port in India, and is situated in Kochi, in the state of Kerala. Being constructed in three stages, the first phase of the terminal was commissioned on 11 Feb 2011.

This can handle cargo up to one million TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) per annum. On completion of the third phase, the terminal will be able to handle 4 million TEUs of cargo per annum. The terminal is presently being operated by the Dubai Ports World (DPW), which will operate it for 30-years after which the control will come back to the Cochin Port Trust.

Vallarpadam Container Terminal is the only Transshipment port in India situated in Kochi. It is billed as the largest single-operator container terminal in the country. Now onwards mother vessels which can carry up to 140000 containers can reach Indian cost, previously it has been done through Colombo or Singapore port. As the first phase is opened now it is expected to handle around 700,000 containers this year itself. The length of the berth is 600 m which will be extended to 1800 m in the 2nd phase, which then will become the largest terminal operated by a single operator.

June, 2011

Chemical Warehouse Facility in Jebel Ali,UAE

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With the growing demand in the market for the storage of hazardous cargoes, CSS has taken its first steps for opening a new warehouse facility in the Chemical Zone situated in Jebel Ali Free Zone. The new facility will be built with a state-of-the-art office area, and a temperature controlled warehouse. Upon completion, the new facility will have loading and offloading ramps. The warehouse will be able to handle the majority of the classified hazardous goods. Professionaly trained and certified CSS employees, handling dangerous goods will be managing the facility.

November, 2010

Technology – Thinking Beyond

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Technology holds the world in its palm, the more it grows the more it spreads.

Nowadays one of the major pillars of any growing organization is its technology wing. The growth, horizontal as well as vertical, entirely depends on its careful establishment. The question is ‘Are you thinking beyond?’ if your answer is ‘yes’ then you’re in a safe position.

There can be three approaches to technology thinking, ‘beyond’, ‘inline’ and ‘behind’. The first one is what the world demands rather require, the second one is also acceptable but the last one is dangerous and compromising. Technology in the 60’s cannot be compared with that of 2010, the same way forward it should be. The Mainframes and personal computers are replaced with palm tops and mobile phones or mobile computing. It never demands you to stop and request but it gives you information on the move through self service.

There are several factors which makes an organization’s IT wing powerful and the first being its effective planning. The infrastructure has to go “in-line” with business processes and serve its customers with rich information as much as possible. The effective execution of the planned technology must happen in a properly controlled and monitored environment.

In order for optimal utilization of technology, people need to properly understand the usage and constraints. For this reason, they need training and they should have the wisdom to think beyond. The potency reaches its maximum automatically when we bind all these together towards a common objective. Technology always requires iteration; Iteration is fundamental as well as inevitable aspect of technology which keeps you in a cyclic process for continuous improvement and enhancement. It does mean that you have to run with technology otherwise you will have to chase technology, the choice is yours.

A company like CSS has never compromised in technology improvement and enhancement. CSS from the initial stage itself recognized the importance of technology and walked alongside. Specific budgeting and investments happened over the years for fulfilling the dream of independence in IT management within the organization. Today we use world class IT management process ISO 9000-2001. The credit goes to its bright management team, who always think beyond.

March, 2010

How to Kill an Industry

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I was not a born gimmick. No one is.
But nurturing is a wonderful process, it can make an animal behave like a human being and I promise it is vice versa too. It’s all in the nurturing.

My parents, teachers, family and friends together inculcated some values in my growing process which set me on a platform like never before. I knew then, how to grow – myself.
The day had arrived when I set out to make a career

The logistics industry, here in Mumbai and the world as a whole, welcomed me with open arms. I closely observed how they worked and behaved. It was strange but I still liked it. They had begun nurturing me to be one with them.

Each day, they told me:

Forget your primary, secondary and tertiary education
That life and death have a deep relation
Forget that two and two is four.
That a little less is a little more
Forget that price of purchase is less than sale
That honesty is not as good as telling a false tale

I remembered all my past years
The years when the entire education I received
Was but a gift of cheat and deceit
I cursed my teachers and parents alike
For telling me that a bike is a bike

So here I am today
Me a part of you and you a part of me
All the honing you gave
For that I bow to Thee
Oh world of logistics, salutations to you
Gimmicks are what I now know and A Gimmick is all I can be!

So then now tell me, how to kill an industry?

Rahat Talreja, CSS Mumbai