Budget Meet 2011’ - 2012’

                                    Budget meet 2011-2012, held at Vedic Village, a sublime retreat set over 150 acres of sprawling fertile farmland in Kolkata was one of the most productive meetings held. The team of 18, including the Branch Heads from all the 8 branches across the country along with Corporate Office Team made the meet a grand success with Ajai Joseph (CEO & Chairman) and Hariharan B (Executive Director) heading it. The CSL Vertical Heads who met on 7th April 2011 continued their discussion till 9^th April 2011 to clear the budget for the financial year 2011- 2012.

 The meet started off with an inaugural function attended by all the staff of Kolkata Office, to congratulate the performers of the year 2010-2011 and the employees who completed 10 years of service. With Tapan Ghosh, the Regional Manager extending a warm welcome to all, we had Mr. Ajai Joseph, Chairman  & CEO addressing the gathering. He spoke of people who are the strength of any organization and stressed on the need to groom the future Managers in CSL. Mr. Ajai also added on stating the need of the hour is to stay ahead of competition and urged the branches who could not achieve the Budgets to re-organise their strategies for the current Financial Year.  Managing Director – Mrs. Shiney Blossom Joseph handed over the momento and certificates to the staff who served a decade in the company.

 

The Star Performer Award was won by Mr. N SunilKumar, Manager Overseas Business Development for the highest contribution to the company’s bottom line followed by the Achiever Award won by Mr. Thiyagarajan S, Branch Manager of CSL Tuticorin, for overshooting his targets for last year. The evening function ended up with a dinner and an interactive time with the Kolkata staff members.

The following day each branch has come up with their presentation that included their Goals for the coming 3 years and strategic plans of achieving it along with the detailed budget for the next financial year. The presentations gave a complete overview of the market trends, share in each of the markets as well a close update on the competitors. The meeting continued with an open discussion that decided on the plans and also on new policies for the coming year. The meet ended the next day with a visit to the Kolkata Branch Office and a tour of the ‘City of Joy’. An official dinner was hosted on a floating restaurant attended by the entire Kolkata team and some of our prestigious clients who have had a long term business relationship with CSL.

       PM  Dedicates Vallarpadam Container Terminal to our Nation

Vallarpadam Container Terminal is India's only International Container Transshipment Terminal (ICTT). This facility is located at Vallarpadam Island near Kochi. To start with, the first phase of the Terminal will have a capacity of 1 million TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent unit) with 600 meters of quay, 6 Super-Post Panamax Quay Cranes and an on-dock railhead serviced by 15 rail mounted gantry crane. Vallarpadam Container Terminal is country's largest single-operator container terminal.

"The absence of a global hub port and the lack of transshipment facilities had put our trade at a disadvantage. With the building of this terminal our exporters can now access mainline container vessels calling at one of the well-located parts of India” said our Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as he inaugurated India's First International Container Transshipment Terminal on Friday, 11^th February 2011, in the presence of Union Ministers, State Ministers, top representatives of Dubai Port World, and other leaders and bureaucrats.

The terminal also opens up immense potential for allied industries like container freight stations, inland container depots, port-based SEZs, cargo through inland waterways, logistics and warehousing centers.

CSL India undertakes a Hydropower project from Shanghai to Siurikhola in Nepal.

Siurikhola is at the base of Mt. Annapurna 12000 ft high and 130 km from Indo-Nepal border. The cargo was unloaded at Besisahar and transported to this site. The last 27 km to the site has no road hence the path has been excavated only for transporting the cargo. The cargo had to be pushed and pulled by excavators during this last stretch. The cargo wt was 170 MT and 500 cbm in vol. It consists of 2 motors 16T each and a crane of ht 34 Ft long and weighed 5T.

Consolidated Shipping Line completes 10 Years of Services.

Consolidated Shipping Line celebrated its 10 years of being at the Soma Kerala Palace resort set on an island on the Vembanad Lake in Chempu, Cochin which is at a distance of 4 kms from Vaikkom town. The beautiful location truly contributed to the occasion thereby elevating our spirits for the whole day.

The function started around 9:00 in the morning with a prayer song continued by lamp lighting and then the function was felicitated by Mr.Ajai Joseph(CEO & Chairman), Ms.Shiny Blossom Joseph(Managing Director), Mr.T.A.Venkitachalam(Charted Accountant), Mr.Varghese V(Insurance Consultant), Mr.B.Hariharan(Executive Director) and Mr.P.V.Varghese(GM- Accounts). Awards were presented in recognition of dedicated service with CSL, for all the family members of CSL who have completed 5 years of service and also to Chennai and Tuticorin branches for their Outstanding Performance during FY 2009-10’. A Top Achiever Award, which included a Trip to UK with Family, was presented to Mr.Sunil Kumar (Chennai Branch Manager) for his outstanding performance.

After a Lunch Buffet, everyone was entertained with Kalaripayattu, the martial art of Kerala. The backdrop of the lilting backwater and the swaying palms with Kalaripayattu made the  setting picture perfect. Later in the evening, the CEO, Mr.Ajai Joseph presented a presentation  which detailed the outline of the growth of the firm which was continued by Vote of Thanks by Ms.Annie Jacob(HR Manager). The function ended up with a DJ Party after dinner.