Star Track Terminals, a container freight station
(CFS) jointly developed by Maersk India and railway PSU Container Corporation of
India (Concor) within the inland container depot complex at Dadri in Greater
Noida, commenced operations as a common user facility.
The CFS was inaugurated on 16 October 2004. The
CFS is located on 45,000 sq. metres of land inside the Dadri complex with a
capacity to accommodate 75,000 to 1,25,000 twenty-foot equivalent units per
annum in the first stage. As per the joint venture agreement, Star Track
Terminals has right to develop a further 20,000 sq. metres of land and expand
the CFS which will increase the total capacity to 150,000 TEUs.
This is the first of the three JV set up by
Concor with private container shipping lines for developing a CFS at its Dadri
ICD complex. The other JV CFS being developed with the Transworld Group and
American President Lines (APL) are expected to commence operations in 2005.