Inland & Coastal shipping Ltd(ICSL), SCI’s wholly owned subsidiary was incorporated in 2016 after Maritime India summit for undertaking/providing transport services through Inland waterways, coastal shipping and end to end logistics.
“Inland & Coastal Shipping Ltd” (ICSL), a wholly owned subsidiary of SCI, was incorporated on 29.09.2016 for providing transportation services through inland waterways. A MOU was executed between ICSL and Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) on 22.01.2021 for Operations & Management of three cargo vessels on bareboat charter basis. Vessels would navigate on National Waterways and serve hinterlands of India. Two cargo vessels were taken over by ICSL in January and February 2021 respectively and third vessel was taken over by ICSL in December 2024. ICSL commenced scheduled liner services in December 2024 in NW1 (Kolkata to Patna / Varanasi) and NW2 (Kolkata to Dhubri / Pandu) under the Jal Vahak Scheme, a subsidy scheme announced by MoPSW, for cargo promotion on IWT. Subsequently, ICSL and IWAI also executed a MOU on 11.03.2022 for taking over two RO-RO vessels owned by IWAI to promote RO-RO transportation. Informatively, one of the RO-RO vessels viz. m.v. Gopinath Bordoloi, was taken over by ICSL and out-chartered on 29.08.2023.
ICSL is headquartered at Shipping House, 13, Strand Road, Kolkata-700001.
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