Inland Container Depots/Container Freight Stations

An Inland Container Depot (also known as ICD) is a container handling and storage facility situated at inland points away from sea ports. Inland Container Depots help importers and exporters to handle their shipments near their location.

ICD is formed to help importers and exporters to handle their shipments near their place of location. If the sea port is away from the places of importers and exporters Inland Container Depot (ICD) helps them to save time and money in the procedures and formalities. In Inland Container Depot (ICD), a combination of services of sea custodian, customs department, carriers, freight forwarders, customs brokers etc. are carried out to facilitate exporters and importers for smooth handling of cargo. ICD is also act as Dry port or CFS in many countries.

Advantages

Warehouses

• Each warehouse is 13mtr high with G+6 palletized racking systems, super-flat flooring and state-of-the-art material handling equipment
• Fully insulated roofs to ensure comfortable ambient temperature
• Each warehouse has customs officials for the ease of customers
• All warehouses are earthquake resistant and designed as per seismic zone 4 requirements.
• Availability of temperature controlled storage space

Container yard

• Fully paved container yard offering an annual throughput capacity of 120,000 TEUs per annum
• The hubs have container yards with pavement quality concrete flooring for stacking containers in a G+5 stacking system using state-of-the-art Rubber Tyre Gantry Cranes (RTGCs) and reach stackers
• Dedicated scrap handling yard, empty yard and segregated maintenance and repair yard
• Specialized storm water drainage system with a capacity to handle rainfall with peak intensity of 156 mm/hr or 10 cubic meters per second

Reefer handling

State of the art, tower-based dedicated reefer container handling area consisting of 96 reefer points, expandable to 200 reefer points based on demand, backed by two diesel generator sets of 500 KVA capacity offering 100 per cent power back up for handling any power outage situations.

• Hazardous cargo handling: Primary and secondary firefighting systems along with fire engines manned by trained professionals.
• CCTV surveillance, by stringent security and safety measures
• Security and access control to prohibit unauthorized access
• Office space for customs, shipping line/agents, CHA(s), surveyors, etc.
• Fully functional customs electronic data interchange facility.
• Comprehensive IT system with network infrastructure.
• Supporting infrastructure like weighbridge, road network, uninterrupted water and power supply systems and 100% power back-up using diesel generator sets
• Other business ancillary services like on-site banks, insurance and currency exchange services

Container Freight Stations

A container freight station is a facility where freight shipments are consolidated or de-consolidated, and staged between transport legs. A CFS is typically located in proximity to an ocean, port, or airport where cargo containers are transported to and from.

Do you have shipping containers that need a home at which to consolidate, and from which to ship out? A container freight station is a location, usually a warehouse, where products and other goods are collected, stored, and where they wait to be shipped to the next location. This process is a major part of the product shipping industry and it’s important to understand how the process works. They are an integral part of any LCL (Less than Container Load) shipping.

When an order prepared for shipping is less than a full container, it is most often more cost effective to ship by LCL. In this instance, the freight is taken to a warehouse where it waits for consolidation, or in some cases, for the rest of the goods to catch up. The container is then loaded onto a truck or ship and sent to its destination.

A good, trustworthy container freight station is run by professionals who understand what it takes to safely store and efficiently ship your products. They skillfully handle the shipment of your products and follow your delivery instructions.

CFS Receiving Services include:

• Moving empty containers from a Container Yard to a Container Freight Station
• Drayage of loaded containers from the Container Freight Station to the Container Yard
• Tallying
• Issuing dock receipt or shipping order
• The physical movement of cargo in or out of a Container Freight Station
• Stuffing, sealing and marking of containers for labelling and identification
• Storage of containers
• Ordinary sorting and stacking of containers pre or post shipment
• Preparing containers internal load plan