Kolkata-based Western Carriers (India) Ltd (WCIL), a multi-modal logistics firm, on Saturday said it has clinched a Rs 1,089 crore contract from mining giant Vedanta Limited.
One of the largest contracts in the sector, the four-year agreement, spanning until 2028, involves transporting aluminium products, pig iron, and export-import cargo from mining manor Vedanta’s Jharsuguda (Odisha) facilities to domestic hubs and international ports, the company said.
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Directorate of Revenue Intelligence has seized 4.6 lakh spurious cigarette sticks at Chennai port. These cigarettes smuggled from Thailand are worth 9.2 crore.
Based on specific information that spurious cigarettes were being smuggled via sea from Thailand, DRI sleuths searched a container that reached Chennai port in a ship. The container had been declared to carry a tabletop fireplace. However, when DRI sleuths opened the container, they found foreign
brand cigarettes concealed in it.
The cigarettes were sent to a laboratory for analysis, DRI sources said.
Since there was no claimant for the consignment, DRI could not arrest anyone. Investigation was on to identify the smuggler, the sources said. In Dec last, customs sleuths seized 20 lakh cigarette sticks worth 3.5 crore at Chennai port which arrived here from Dubai. In Aug, the DRI seized one crore spurious cigarette sticks worth 15 crore smuggled from Thailand and Dubai in ships.
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