Container cargo price over ₹300 crore may have been broken as a result of incessant rain that pounded the Thoothukudi district on Sunday and Monday. Water logging was reported in container freight stations (CFS) and inland container depots (ICD) in Thoothukudi until Wednesday evening.
There are 16 CFSs and one ICD in Tuticorin with over 2,000 containers saved in these amenities. As well as, there are cargoes saved within the amenities for exports. The worst affected are the amenities positioned on the Harbour Specific Street, stated sources.
The water entered the amenities with each Korampallam Pond overflowing and breaching into villages. Equally, the lake in Ottapidaram breached and entered the amenities, stated sources.
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In the meantime on the VO Chidambaranar Port, there was energy from Sunday afternoon until Wednesday evening. The container terminal contained in the port is working a genset however with minimal operations, stated sources.
Survey pending
An official of a giant CFS operator stated a survey may be finished provided that the water recedes and it’ll take a few days.
In the meantime, Operations at Tuticorin airport and practice companies to Tirunelveli resumed after they had been suspended for practically two days as a result of heavy rain within the two southern districts.
The primary flight from Chennai left for Thoothukudi within the morning.
Southern Railway in a launch stated practice operations via Tirunelveli attained normalcy after Tirunelveli Yard was declared match for practice motion at 17.20 hrs on Tuesday. This was after clearing the waterlogging and completion of restoration work.
Practice No:20924 Gandhidam – Tirunelveli Specific was the primary practice to roll into Tirunelveli Jn after restoration at 23:05 Tuesday.
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Practice No. 12631 Chennai Egmore – Tirunelveli Nellai Specific that left Chennai Egmore at 20.10 hrs on Tuesday will run upto Tirunelveli on 20.12.2023 as per regular schedule as a substitute of earlier introduced partial cancellation between Madurai and Tirunelveli, the discharge stated.
In the meantime, restoration works in Tirunelveli – Tiruchendur part, which was affected badly as a result of rain, are being carried out in full swing. Consequently, practice companies between the 2 locations have been cancelled at this time.
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