July 25, 2008, PAT (Port Authority of Thailand) arranged a ceremony to celebrate the first vessel to Ranong Port by Gati Coast to Coast Carrier from India. In this ceremony, Mr. Pinit Charoenpanit, Duputy of Ranong Governor as president, Ms. Pankhae Junnanon, Deputy of PAT Director, Mr. Pichet Mankon, Assistant Director of PAT , Mr. Kumaran Thirumagaral, Deputy Chairman of Gati Coast to Coast, Mr. Siaw Hooi Chuan, Chairman of Meridian Shipping Services Group, Mr. Sumet Kewngamdee and Mr. Soonthorn, Director of Starline Agencies Asia (Thailand) and the representatives from government & private sectors in Ranong Province who related to this event around 100 estimated guests to join.
Vessel, Gati Prestige, she is a container vessel, and 8,161 dead weight tons. She has been delivered 20’ * 200 empty container and 150 laden containers from Yangon, Myanmar to Ranong Port, and continues her journey to Port Blair and Chennai, India respectively.
Gati Coast to Coast is one business part of Gati Limited who is the leader in logistics field in India. They start to provide container vessel, which routing from Ranong Port – Ports in Myanmar and India. This service facilitates importer and exporters to make international transport more convenience, and faster by container.
The said service, “Gati Coast to Coast Service”, provides main routing service, Ranong Port – Port Blair – Chennai Port – Yangon Port and back to Ranong Port. Moreover, Chittagong Port and Colombo Port are additional routing services provided by Gati Coast to Coast. At the initial stage, they serve the service every ten days by using 4 container vessels which has minimum load 300 TEU. The first export vessel from Ranong Port is estimated to arrange on August 25, 2008.
The representative agent of this carrier is Starline Agencies Asia (Thailand) Co., Ltd. which has their representative in Southern part & Bangkok to facilitate the transportation between Thailand and targeted destinations. They are also focusing to expand business to importer & exporter who are not located only in Southern but also including Central Parts of Thailand. They are quite confidence that this service will facilitate the transport cargo to South East Asia and BIMSTEC’s group with efficiency, convenience and faster.
Targeted Customers are divided into three groups; there are “Lower Southern Part”, pick up empty container & return laden container at Ranong Port, this kind of targeted customers who are currently exports via Penang Port & Songkha Port. The second group, “Upper Southern Part”, Suratthani Province is a hub, which customers can pick up & return container at Suratthani Province. The last group, “Central & East Parts”, empty containers & return laden containers at Bangkok Port or Laem Chabang Port and further delivery to Ranong Port.
Moreover, they also focused CFS at Ranong Port in order to reduce logistics cost of carrier and customers. The most popular export goods to India & Myanmar are Cement, Particle Boards, Rubber, and piecemeal products. Import from India & Myanmar is also focused in order to balance between export from Ranong Port. In case the demand is over supply, bigger vessel will replace the existing vessel to serve customers’ demand. They emphasize on Cost Reduction, Saving Transit Time, Reliability and Punctuality.
Duputy of Ranong Governor said he would like to congratulation and thank you to PAT that successfully to convince the container vessel to start new connecting routing between Ranong Port, Ports in India and other countries which located at the west of Andaman Seas. This event is also supports to international business and makes Ranong Port to be the hub of international transport in Andaman Seas. As a representative of Ranong Province, we are willing to cooperate with PAT and related parties to develop infrastructure and other facilities to support ongoing businesses, transport, Economic of Ranong and country.
Duputy of PAT said that it was very impressive with important event and would like to thank you to Duputy of Ranong Governor and Gati Coast to Coast from India that selected Ranong Port under PAT’s management to start business on this routing which are a lot of challenge obstacle and more risks. However, we do not have any doubt that Gati will achieve their own target by their efforts. In the part of PAT, including director or service providers, we are willing to support Gati in order to help them achieve the target.
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