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‘Lack of deep port harbours hampering export of trucks’
I’ll be happy if we could have a deep port harbour. I can export my trucks easily because this, for us, is the biggest constraint to raise export numbers. Access to shipping lines, access to deep water harbours this would help us,\" said DICV Managing Director and CEO Erich Nesselhauf.
Hannover (Germany) : Unavailability of deep port harbours in India is hampering the export of trucks and it is the “biggest constraint” while planning to ship more vehicles from the country, says German auto major Daimler.The company, which is present in India through a wholly-owned arm Daimler India Commercial Vehicles ((DICV)), manufactures trucks and buses out of its Oragadam plant near Chennai. It is targeting to touch 30 exports markets by the end of this year.
I’ll be happy if we could have a deep port harbour. I can export my trucks easily because this, for us, is the biggest constraint to raise export numbers. Access to shipping lines, access to deep water harbours this would help us," said DICV Managing Director and CEO Erich Nesselhauf.
So, if the government really has the intention to help raise exports, deep water port facilities are needed, he added. Asking the government to address the matter urgently, Nesselhauf said: “I am not interested in 2025. I am interested in it right now.”
DICV currently exports DICV-built FUSO trucks from the Oragadam plant to markets to over 20 markets in Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America. Since starting its operations in India four years ago, the company has so far sold 42,000 units in the country and exported another 7,000 trucks. The company is now also gearing up to export fully-built buses. It plans to start exporting nine-tonne Mercedes-Benz school buses to West Asia by the end of this year.
