The Paradip Port Trust (PPT) in association with the Indian Ports Association (IPA) and PortallInfosystems Private Limited organised a road show here to create awareness about the 'Port Community System' (PCS).
“PCS1X” is a cloud-based single user-friendly interface platform, which improves the ease of doing business and maritime trade.
IPA CAO Rajiv Puri, MMD Surveyor SK Das, FA, CAO and Captain SK Sahu and PPT Deputy Conservator AK Mohapatra gracing as guests stressed on connecting all the agencies related to the maritime sector on a single platform. The linking would promote ease of doing business by adopting world-class trade facilitation practices on transparent and cost-effective proposition. “It is a “game-changer” for shipping operations and is set to help reduce the high logistics costs in the country,” they opined.
The PortallInfosystems Private Limited representatives said that all the trading bodies across maritime sector would be able to come on board as the single platform connects all the stakeholders.
PPT TM SK Mishra presided over the programme coordinated by DTM AK Sahu. More than 150 steamer agents, CHAs, transporters, importers and exporters, stevedores, MMD and other stakeholders participated in the road show.