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The Box That Controls Your Business \u2014 And India Doesn’t Make It<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s a scenario which every auto-parts manufacturer in Pune, every spice trader in Ernakulam and every garment exporter in Tirupur has experienced: container shortage panic. In the height of the season, call your freight forwarder, and you will always get the same response: boxes are in some Chinese port. At the peak of the global supply-chain crisis, the price of a single 20-foot container was breaching \u20b94.5 lakh, a rate it would not have matched in normal times if it had been trading at less than \u20b980,000. Indian exporters had to pay through the nose. Their competitors didn’t.<\/p>\n

The grim reality is that the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways<\/a> estimates India imports less than 15 thousand containers a year locally, while 350 lakh TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) of cargo are handled at the country’s key ports. More than 95 per cent of the world’s container box is made in China, where they have helped to establish their own export dominance. India imports nearly all empty boxes which carry their cargo.<\/p>\n

That one void\u2014the unmanufactured box\u2014is the focus of one of India’s biggest logistics infrastructure moves in decades. And finally, it’s opening for Indian entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n

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