As part of practical oriented teaching pedagogy and a contemporary focused curriculum the students of MMS Sem III were taken to a one day industrial visit at Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) on 16th September, 2017.
Total 74 students along with two faculty members (Prof. Sukhada Tambe and Prof. Preeti Singh) visited JNPT. Mr. Patil, (Marketing Dept) enlightened the students on the functional aspects of CFS focusing their organization. Later on, students interacted with them and got cleared their doubts on IMPEX industry like container movements, Freight Stations, Warehouses, marketing, customs rules and regulations and other related information. Students were taken on round to have a glimpse of the station spread around 45 acres of land.
The students were taken to JNPT, leading major port in India with the handling capacity of 10 million TEUs per annum in container freight. Mr. Patil, thoroughly explained their model room on the Port and its capacity, functions, logistics involved in the process of import and export as well as its future plans etc.
Later on students went inside the port crossing all the customs formalities and students got exposed to the actual loading and unloading process of a container into the ship. Currently three ports JNPT, Nhava Sheva International Container Terminal (NSICT), Gateway Terminals India (GTI) are operating at JNPT. After having lunch at the guest house the students and the faculty returned to the college with substantial knowledge on IMPEX Industry and Functions of Seaways in the country.
