PSTS TIMES ISSUE 11

From the Editor's Desk:

Here's some good news everybody!Recent report shows that the Indian logistics sector is expected toclock Rs 5,96,114 crore in annual revenues by 2013-14 on the back ofstrong growth in economic fundamentals as well as favorableregulatory environment.

Mahatma Sandhi said, “Be the change you want to see in the world" - let us bethe change we want to see in the reviving economic scenario- with ourpositive outlook and plain common sense approach to work. At the same time,lets not forget to count all our blessings that helped us sail through the roughweather with the strong belief ‘‘This too shall pass!"

How can you truly be in charge of your life? Simple - be aware!

When you get angry, you act like a machine. Someone turns one switch on and you launch into afit of anger, another switch is turned on and you start feeling envious, another person turnsyet another switch on and you feel happy. You only end up becoming a machine connected toseveral switches- press the switch here, this happens, press another switch there, somethingelse happens! If some one pays you a compliment, it is music to your ears' if someone glares atyou, you are filled with hatred.

If a person is not a master of what he does, if he acts without being aware of what he isdoing, if he is not in control of himself, that particular action is unawareness.

The basis of the pursuit of awareness is constant alertness. You may question how it ispossible to practice this awareness in every day life. How do youput awareness into practice - at the store, in the office, or athome? As you can see, awareness is not a separate process. If youdecide, “Henceforth I will perform my activities with awareness ” You willdefinitely be able to do so. But you will also need some patience toaid this resolve. It is our own mistake that we have trulyperfected the practice of unawareness and therefore, even if wedo not desire it, it keeps coming back.

In order to pursue wakefulness, bring awareness in whatever you are doing. Ifyou add awareness to your work, it will not be a hindrance; on the contrary, itwill increase your competence at work - be it in technology, be it in process orfor that matter people!

- Excerpts from an article by Pujya Shri Rakeshbhai Jhaveri

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Happenings - Chennai

New Client in PSTS Kitty

1 Saint Gobain Glass India is one of the leading float glassmanufacturers in the world. It manufactures various types of floatglass in India in the World Glass Complex in Sriperumbadur. Forpacking the glass, Saint Gobain imports pinewood from New Zealand.PSTS Heavy Lift And Shift Ltd. provides transportation services in themovement of 1100 CBM pinewood every month from the Port ofTuticorin to its manufacturing facility in Sriperumbadur nearChennai.

Happenings - Vishakapatnam

Seen Here: Mr.Raja Rao, Branch Manager,PSTS Logistics -Vizag , visiting VisakaContainer Terminal along with the Senior

Happenings - Cochin

New Client in PSTS Kitty

Lakshmi Machine Works Limited is a leading Textile Machinery Manufacturer inIndia and one among the three in the world to produce the entire range of SpinningMachinery. PSTS Logistics provides air sea freight forwarding services to LakshmiMachine Works Ltd. [LMW Ltd] in the export of machineries in20' and 40' containers through the Port of Cochin.

PSTS Logistics provided Agency and Stevedoring services to Exult Logistics forthe import of Essar Steel Coils and Plates in the Port of Chennai. Between June-August 2009, four shipments have been handled.

Portek Group, headquartered in Singapore, is a turnkey provider of equipment, machineries, services and solutions to ports globally. PSTS Logistics handled their import of machinery, equipment and tool and re-export of the same in the Port of Chennai.

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PSTS handles Essar Steel Coils and Plates

PSTS provided Agency, Stevedoring andTransportation services to Rockwell Logistics byunloading Essar Steel Coil and Plates from MV Dagmar in three coastal shipments from Hazira to the Port of Tuticorin in September and October2009. Transportation was provided from Tuticorin to various destinations all over South India.

Seen Here (I to r): Mr.ArJun Sankar, Joint Director, PSTS Logistics, Mr.Vikram Bhagat, Director, Rockwell Logistics,Mr.Ashwin Sankar, Joint Director, PSTS Logistics, and Mr. TJ Kannaram, Executive Director, PSTS Heavy Lift'd Shift ltd.,

Happenings - Karaikal

PSTS provides Port Management Services in Karaikal for MARS Logistics

Karaikal port is a new deep sea water porter being constructed in Vanjore near Karaikal, Puducherry. The port development is carried out by Karaikal Port Private Ltd. (KPPL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of MARS Limited aligning with Pembianaan Redzai Sdn Bhd of Malaysia.

PSTS provides complete logistics services in handling various cargos like coal, cement, pet Coke, sugar and project cargo. The handling operation commenced in July 2009.

Seen Here; (Pic on top): Mr.Siriram and Mr.Ashwin Sankar, Joint Directors of PSTS Logistics issuing the first Trip Sheet to the transportation crew member to take the cargo from the wharf to the stock yard.

Seen Here ; (Pic at the bottom): Stevedoring in progress for coal fromMV Valerie, the first coal vessel that called on Karaikal Port.

PSTS tastes raw sugar In Karaikal Port

To remedy the current sugar shortage, the Governmentof India initiated measures to support imports of rawsugar by the mills against future export commitments.Indian mills are finding it advantageous to import raw sugarto process and sell in the domestic market, as domestic sugarprices are currently well above the international prices, even after accounting for processing, transportation, and distribution costs, and futureexport obligations

The vessel MV Nord Maru arrived in the Karaikal Portwith 45,600 MT of raw sugar. PSTS provided stevedoring, bagging ofcargo into two ton jumbo bags, storage and delivery of raw sugar for thefirst time!

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Events © Sundaram's Smile Play School

Independence day: Children at Smile playschool celebratedindependence day with all pride and happiness.Mr.T.Udayashankar, CMD, who was the guest of honour , hoistedthe national flag and Mrs.Latha Udayashankar distributed sweetsto the children. Children performed an exciting and colorful drillwith all enthusiasm and made it a memorable day on the whole.

Happy Onam! Children celebrated onam and invoked LordMahabali by doing a wonderful flower carpet to seek his blessingsso that the school and all the children would be blessed with peace,prosperity and happiness all through.

Events © Vikasa TuticorinSynergy in Motion!

P.T. Blazon was held on 14th August 2009.Sri. Udhal Sing, Commandant, Coast Guard, Tuticorin wasthe Chief Guest. The program was very colorful withlights and costumes. The rhythmic dances and exercisesof the children entertained the gathering.

A trip to Thailand

This year's trip abroad was organized during thepooja holidays; a group of students along with thePrincipal visited The enchanting Land of WhiteElephants.

Fun Fare in Vikasa Campus

The Students Council under the Social Service Projectorganized a mega Fun Fare called 'An Evening In Vikasa'on20th August'09 in commemoration with theSadbhavana Diwas Celebrations and raised an amount ofRs.2,53,000/- towards the Charity.

All play, no work in Veega Land!

The Annual Tour for the Middle School Children wasa trip to Kerala, during the third week of September2009. Children had their best of entertainment atVeega Land, Cochin and Zoo in Trivandrum.

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PSTS Industrial Training School, Chennai successfully completed Batch II with 85 students underMagalir Thittam of Govt. of Tamilnadu - by offering training in handling JCB, Fork Lift and Crams operations.

Thetheory classes were followed by hand-on training and examinations.

Theory Class in Progress Hands -On Training - Crane

Hands-On Training -Fork Lift Examination in Progress

The Joy of giving Week

The Joy of Giving Week is an initiative by Give India (the powerto change lives);this organization prepared a list of NGOs who

can be approached by anyone who wishes to donate. These NGOswere selected by a rigorous selection procedure. This initiative

served as a platform for people all across the country to reachout to someone less privileged - by donating money, volunteering

time, providing skills and even just saying a kind word to someonewho may not have expected it!

Hands on Training JCB

Knowledgescape

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Multi Modal Transportation - A Brief Overview

The most outstanding contribution of containerization is the suitability and capability ofcontainers for Door-to-Door Transportation internationally. A containerized shipment canbe made complete in all respects from one interior point(consignor's premises) in onecountry to an interior point (consignee's premises) in another country under a single contract,single freight and single document (ie)combined transfer document.

The single consolidated freight amount includes freights charged by all modes oftransport involved from the Point of Shipment to the Point of Destination. Theconsignment moves through different modes of transport (i.e) rail, road, ship,inland waterways or sometimes by air also. This is called multimodal transport orIntegrated Transport. This system has been developed and used in allindustrialized countries like the USA, European Union, Japan, Australia etc.,

In the year 1993, the Sovt. of India enacted the Multi Modal Transportation of 6oods Act based on the rulesframed by the International Chamber of Commerce[ICC] and also takes into account the provisions of UNConvention of 1980 on multi modal transportation of goods.

Multi Modal Transportation Document

♦ It is a contract for the transportation of goods by multi modal transportation.

♦ It is a negotiable document unless it is marked non-negotiable at the option ofthe consignor.♦ It is a Document of Title on the basis of which the holder can take delivery ofthe goods covered by it.

The concerned parties who have commercial interest and be governed by the document once it is executedare; the Multi Modal Transport Operator, the Consignor, the Bankers, the insurers.The Multi Modal Transport Operator shall be liable for losses resulting from any loss of or any damage tothe consignment and delay in the delivery of the consignment. The MTO will be responsible during the periodfrom which he takes charge of the goods till its delivery.

COMBIDOC and FIATA Bills of Lading

There are two internationally accepted documents in theMulti Modal Transportation viz COMBIDOC evolved by theBaltic International Council (BIMCO) and FreightForwarders Bill of lading [FBL] evolved by the InternationalFreight Forwarders Association (FIATA). The COMBIDOCis generally used by vessel operating MTOs while FBL isused by non-vessel owning NVO MTOs - mostly FreightForwarders.

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Showcase

Recognition for Performance Excellence !

Rishi Dev Ratan, s/oMr.J.Ganesh Ram, JMD,receives the first prize ofcash Rs.25,000/- fromMr.Palani Manickam,Hon.Minister of State-Finance for scoring 91% inCBSE Class XII Board Exam(commerce) at the GoldenJubilee celebrations of

Seen here: PSTS Group CMD Mr.T.Uday Sankarreceiving the award for highest tonnage of cargohandled excluding thermal coal in the year 2008-09in the Port of Tuticorin from Smt.P.Geetha Jeevan,Hon.Minister for Social Welfare, Tamil Nadu. Mr.GJRao, Chairman TPT and Mr.Subbiah, DeputyChairman TPT are also seen.

CCHA in August 2009. This is a special award constituted byCCHA for its members' children to promote excellence ineducation.

Seen Here: Mr.J.Ganesh Ram, JMD, PSTS Logistics receiving thenomination certificate for Steamer Agent - Break -Bulk Category forThe Maritime and Logistics Awards[MALA Awards2009] fromMs.Geetu Joshi, Deputy Secretary - Ministry of Shipping.

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