Container Corporation of India (Concor) proposes to set up a port side container terminal (PSCT) in West Bengal to handle the projected increase in domestic container traffic. The location for the terminal was not yet finalized but could be in Hoogly. This would be the company’s third PSCT in the state. Both the other PSCTs are at Calcutta, one at Cossipore under the Eastern Railway and the other at Shalimar under the South-Eastern Railway. Of these two PSCTs, the one at Cossipore would be used as a full-fledged inland container depot (ICD) to handle imports and exports. This conversion of Cossipore PSCT into an ICD and the projected increase in container traffic has prompted Concor to think in terms of a new terminal.

Concor was also setting up ICDs at Jamshedpur in Bihar and Balasore in Orissa, which were expected to improve the throughput significantly.