SCHOOL OF COMMERCE
A PRESENTATION ON
INLAND CONTAINER DEPOT
SUBMITTED TO SUBMITTED BY
PROF. MEGHA KANUNGO ANSHIKA SRIVASTAVA
BERNARD EMMANUEL
DEEPIKA JAISWAL
HEERALAL YADAV
NEHA GADKARI
ROAD MAP
• Inland Container Depot
• Functions of ICD’s
• Operations of ICD’s
• Benefits of ICD’s
• Import Procedure
• Export Procedure
• Major ICD’s in INDIA
• Basic Requirements for setting an ICD.
• ICD Pithampur
• Facilities available at ICD Pithampur
• Types of Containers available at ICD Pithampur
INLAND CONTAINER DEPOT
(ICD)
• A common user facility with public
authority status equipped with requisite
infrastructure to handle export import cargo.
• Also called as Dry Ports.
FUNCTIONS OF ICD’s
• Receipt and Delivery of Cargo
• Stuffing and De-stuffing of Containers
• Customs Clearance
• Temporary Storage of Cargo and
Containers
• Reworking of Containers
• Maintenance of Containers
• Packing of Goods
• Storage of Empty Containers.
OPERATIONS OF ICD
• Rail Siding (in case of a rail based terminal)
• Container Yard
• Warehouse
• Gate Complex
BENEFITS OF ICD
• Concentration points for long distance cargos.
• Customs clearance facility available near the
centers of production and consumption
• No customs required at port gateways
• Reduced level of pilferage.
• Provides safety to cargo.
• Reduced overall level of empty container
movement.
• Increase in trade flows.
• Transit facility for cargos.
• Competitive transport cost.
Procedure to Export Goods through ICD
• Exporter takes the goods to the ICD and files the shipping bill.
• The goods are examined by the Customs Officers and they are
stuffed into the containers and thereafter the containers are
sealed.
• Such containers are transported to the Seaports by the
Container Corporation of India or any other authorized
agency, either by rail or road, when the containers are loaded
into the vessels for delivery of the same at the specified
foreign port.
• In the case of export through ICD, the exporters are requested
to file two additional copies of Shipping Bills known as
"Transference Copies" along with other documents.
MAJOR ICD’S IN INDIA
Basic Requirements for Setting an ICD in
INDIA
• Sufficient Land Area
• Suitable Warehousing capability.
• Suitable paved area for safe and easy movement of trucks
and trailers
• Requisite office facilities
• ICD must have an easy access-connectivity to the road
network.
ICD Pithampur
• Strategically located at the industrial heartland of M.P., the state of art dry
port lies a mere 45 kms from the financial nerve center of Central India -
Indore. Spread over an area of 17 acre with all the necessary
infrastructure, ICD Pithampur brings to you all the advantages offered by
major maritime ports like Jawaharlal Nehru Port, Nhava Sheva and
Mumbai Port for containerized cargo, & Sahara Air Port, Mumbai, for air-
cargo.
• The port covers a wide area of Indore, Pithampur, Dewas, Mandideep,
Bhopal, Nagda, Ghatabillod, Dhamnod, Sarangpur, Ratlam, Pilukhedi etc.
INFRASTRUCTURE, EQUIPMENTS AND
FACILITIES
• ICD, Pithampur occupies an area of 17 acres sufficient to cater
to the requirement of this region.
• Modern all weather Warehouse of 20,000 sq. feet floor area.
• Bank counter facility.
• Availability of one reach-stacker, three 70 T cranes, three hydra
cranes, two fork-lifts, and adequate labor for handling, stuffing/
de-stuffing of containers/CBTs.
• Excellent lighting arrangements to allow night working.
• Well-groomed security to ensure safety of consignments.
• 70 trailers to cater to the road transport between ICD & Ratlam
and also for local requirement of factory stuffing / de-stuffing.
• EDI Facility is available at ICD Pithampur
• Facility for choking & palletization available
• Custom House Agents to help & expedite process.
• Shipping Agents available.
• LCL facility to encourage the small exporters
• Air Cargo facility through Truck Bonding procedure. Goods are Custom
cleared and sent to SAHAR AIRPORT, where under Customs supervision,
they are loaded to the Aircraft as per the destination.
• Importers can manifest import containers directly to the ICD for delivery.
On arrival of the containers at the sea port - Mumbai Port and Nhava
Sheva Port, CONCOR transports them to the ICD, where the same are
Customs cleared.
• Exporter's find the empty containers readily available at the ICD for
stuffing. After stuffing, the export containers are custom cleared and
sealed at ICD itself.
• CONCOR transport the same to the seaport and hands over to the
respective shipping lines for further carriage overseas.
TYPES OF CONTAINERS AVAILABLE AT ICD
PITHAMPUR
General purpose container
High Cube General purpose Container
Questions/Queries
