Emami Agrotech ships goods through inland waterways to North East

Emami Agrotech, the Rs 6,000-crore edible oil arm of Emami Group, has taken up a multi-modal transportation mode by leveraging inland waterways to connect North East with West Bengal. This is a first ever such transportation mode being used in the East by any company.

The company took this option due to recent floods in West Bengal which resulted in derailment of road and rail transportation on the Siliguri corridor causing shortage of critical commodities and highlighted the vulnerability to access North-East in times of calamities.

Emami Agrotech made its first shipment of 250 tonnes of packed edible oil from Haldia Port to Agartala on Brahmaputra river via Bangladesh. The vessel has already reached Ashuganj Port in Bangladesh and the finished good stocks have now started moving through trucks to Agartala. This river route will be navigable throughout the year, even when there are lot of obstacles in road movement due to difficult terrain of North East.


Emami Agrotech’s partnership with Inland Waterways of India in facilitating alternate connective means has significant business volume for the company.

Sudhakar Desai, CEO of Emami Agrotech, said the company expects to ship around 6,000-7,000 tonnes of packed edible oil per annum using this route. He said the company would extend this model to Guwahati, Patna and Allahabad.