PSTS TIMES LEADERS IN LOGISTICS SINCE 1940 ISSUE 7

Hello everybody!

The much awaited Beijing Olympics has come and gone! Watched the national parade on our IndianIndependence Day! Celebrated another birthday of Lord Ganesha, observed fasting during Ramzan!Closer at work, two more quarters have passed by!

Be it global, national, at home or at work, some events follow its own rhythm. Lets take a moment tonotice these happenings around us and draw inspiration from: the triumph of human spirit at the Olympics, the joy of freedom every August 15th, the diversity of our culture, customs and our continuous effort to bring Customer Delight!

Lets make each and every moment worth its while!

Doing one's Home Work!

You open your child's school diary. Flip to the page dated today. What do you see?A cryptic note from your child's school teacher:“ Rama is a clever student but comes to school notdoing the home work; manages to answer the questions that are asked with some prompting. Rama hasthe potential to be a class topper provided she puts in some extra effort at home as well. Please look into™

this ” On reading this, you are upset at your child for not doing the home work while at the same timeyou are happy to note that your child is considered "clever with great potential to be a class topper". You call out aloud.Ramaaa!and the rest of the story, you know better!Each one of us has great potential and are clever indeed! But we go through life skimming the surface and merely go with theflow. So long as one does not get into a sticky situation like how Rama has landed, we do not bother to make that extra effort. Wesurvive on our inherent ability to manage crisis or any challenge but do not proactively make plans anticipating the futureoutcome.Doing ones home work in the working world is pretty much for the same reasons why your child should be doing his/hers.

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It enables to understand the issue at hand and brings better clarity

It improves one's analytical and problem solving ability

It helps one to come across as a confident and thorough person the following day

It makes you a team leader when your colleagues seek your guidance

It sure builds leadership skills that will improve your career advancement

Well, these are not exhaustive but to point out a few benefits. Lets do away with the 'chalta hai' or "aahattum paarkalam'attitude and be prepared. Next time you start advising your child for not doing his/her homework, pause and think' how often you do I mine? ” Doing ones home work sure helps to become a topper - not only your child hut you too!

- Bharathy Ganesh Ram

2Happenings – Chennai

PSTS participates in two Logistics and Material Handling Expo

INFRATECH 2008

This exhibition was organized by AIMO in Anna UniversityGrounds between 07th -09th Julv 2008

SME Logistics & Material Handling Expo

This International Business Exhibitionl.Seen here:Mr.Ganesh Ram, JMD andMr.TJKannaram, EDinteracting withMr.Sudhir Rangnekar, MD andGroup CEO of Sical Logistics

2.Seen here; Some members of thePSTS Team at the venue.(I to r)Mr.Gurumoorthy, Mr.Dhansekar,Mr.A.Venkatramani, Mr.Ganesh Ram,Mr.TJKannaram, Mr.Senthil,Mr.Ashwin Sankar

presented by ICICI Bank Business BankingDivision was held in Chennai Trade Center,between 28th -30th August 2008.Seen here; Mr.AVenkatramani andMr.Senthil attending to a visitor at thestall

TJ Kannaram felicitatesthe new CMb of CWC

Mr.BB Pattanaik has assumedcharge as Chairman and ManagingDirector of Central WareHousingCorporation in New Delhi witheffect from 01.07.08.

Mr.TJKannaram, ED, PHLS andMr Gajapathy called on him in hisDelhi office and greeted him!

PSTS Heavy Lift & Shift Ltd handles Jindal Steel Blooms,Billerts and Slabs in the Port of Chennai

PHLS provided wagon handling service , stacking , transport service anddelivery upto vessel hook point for the shipment of Billerts (18390 MT) andSlabs(23,339 MT) for E to E Supply Chain solutions Pvt.Ltd..We provided wagon handling service , transport service upto the storage areafor the shipment of Blooms(4630 MT) for E to E Supply Chain solutions

PSTS Logistics provides stevedoring service for ODCin the Port of Chennai

The shipment from Xingang to Chennai in MV Houston with 158 MT and 97 MTcylinders was unloaded for Enexco Technologies on 12th August 2008.

3Happenings - Tuticorin

Celebrations at Smile School

Independence day was celebrated with all pomp and gaiety. The day began with Rangoli art done bythe teachers. Mrs .Mehana Sathish, hoisted the national flag This was followed by a mini drill by th«little ones Later they saluted the national flag and sang the national anthem.

Gardening week Plants and greenery makes this planet a better place tolive in. Children were given information about the need to grow plantshow to grow plants and to take care of them. All the children showed eagerness in the art ofgardening be it sowing the seeds or watering the plants. With much care they planted theirseeds and took home a pot of greenery and vowed to make our planet earth a green haven.

Sports bay at Vikasa School:

Athletic Meet - The lighting of the flame.'All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy'.

Appreciation and encouragement is the secret of thewinners and runners. As the flame is lit, theparticipants feel the fire within themselves andbring laurels to their Houses.P.T. BLAZONExercise keeps our body and mind fit. Theenthusiastic Vikasites who aim higher, strive harderand achieve greater goals, also enchanted andcaptivated, the minds of the onlookers by theirenthralling and unraveled colourful, variety ofP.T.displays.

PSTS Logistics handling coal inthe Port of Tuticorin

PSTS handled the coal shipment(53,206 MT) of MV Mairouli thatcame from Indonesia toTuticorin in September2008.This was handled on behalf ofFossil Logistics, a group companyof Coal&Oil.

PSTS bags two awards for excellence in traffic performance for the year 2007-08

During the Port of Tuticorin's 34th Foundation Day Celebration, the awards for excellence intraffic performance was given at the Tuticorin Port Trust. PSTS won two awards viz., Highestamount of labour levy paid as stevedore and Highest volume of granite loaded in a single day.

Seen here: Mr.Arjun Sankar, Executive Director, receiving the award fromTmt.Geetha Jeevan, Hon'ble minister for social welfare of TamilnaduAlso seen (r to I) Mr.G.J Rao Chaiman of Tuticorin Port Trust, Mr.R.Dhanuskodi Athithan MP,

Tirunelveli Parlimentary constituency, Mr.M.Appadurai MP, Tenkasi Parliamentary constituency

TJ Kannaram elected as Secretary General of AICCI

Mr.TJ Kannaram , Executive Director, was unanimously elected as Secretary General ofAll India Chamber of Commerce & Industries, Tuticorin for the year 2008 - 2010.Congratulations TJK!

Seen here: Mr.Chola Nachiar, President, Tamil Chamber of Commerce and Chief Guest atthe Installation Ceremony felicitating TJ Kannaram

Knowledgescape

Evolution of the "Box'Life before the box

For many thousands of years, mankind has shipped goodsacross the oceans,

from one land toanother. Think of thegreat seafaringpeoples; thePhoenicians,Egyptians, Greeks,Romans, Portuguese,Spanish, British andmany more. Sailing the

pallets, then loading the pallets into specially constructedboxes. However, despite these developments, cargohandling was almost as labour-intensive after World WarII as it had been in the mid-1800s.

Then, in 1955, Malcolm McLean, a trucking entrepreneurfrom North Carolina, USA, bought a steamship companywith the idea of transporting entire truck trailers withtheir cargo still inside. He realised it would

bemuch simpler andquicker to have onecontainer that could beworld looking for new treasures, they brought home and lifted from a vehicle

traded food, jewels and materials that their countrymen directly on to a shiphad never seen before. without first having to

unload its contents.But the process was never easy. The loading and unloadingof individual goods in barrels, sacks and wooden crafes These ideas were

K.from land transport to ship and back again on arrival wasslow and cumbersome to say the least. Loading andunloading was very labour intensive; a vessel might easilyspend more time in port than at sea while dockworkersmanhandled cargo into and out of tight spaces below decks.There was also high risk of accident, loss and theft.

There were some basic systems in place to make theprocess more efficient, such as the use of rope forbundling timber, sacks for carrying coffee beans, andpallets for stacking and transporting bags or sacks.However, industrial and technological advances, such asthe spread of the railways in the 18th century, highlightedthe inadequacies of the cargo shipping system. Thetransfer of cargo from trains to ships and vice versabecame a real problem.

The birth of the modern container and ' intermodalism'Before the container shipping industry emerged, boxes ofvarious types and sizes had often been used in transportingcargo simply because they were the logical way to move

things en masse from20' Dry Freight Container

based on the theory that efficiency could be vastlyimproved through a system of 'intermodalism', in whichthe same container, with the same cargo, can betransported with minimum interruption via differenttransport modes during its journey. Containers could bemoved seamlessly between ships, trucks and trains. Itwould simplify the whole logistical process and, eventually,lead to a revolution in cargo transportation andinternational trade over the next 50 years.

But to realise intermodal cargo transport all areas of thelogistical chain needed to be considered: not just thecontainers, but the ships, terminals, trucks and trainswould need to be adapted to

carry them.

It was a logical step thatcontainer sizes should bestandardised so that theycould be most efficientlystacked and so that ships,

trains, trucks and cranes could be specially-fitted or builtone location to another. to a single size specification. This standardisation would

Boxes similar to eventually need to apply across the global industry asmodern containers had container shipping companies began to carry containers

been used for belonging to other lines.combined rail- and In 1960 international steering groups began discussinghorse-drawn transport what the standard container sizes should be and in 1961

in England as early as the International Organisation for Standardisation set1792. The US standard sizes of which the two most important were, 20-,government used small and 40-foot lengths. The 20-foot container, referred to as

standard-sized a Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit (TEU), became the industrycontainers during the Second World War, which proved a standard reference with container traffic and vessel

means of quickly and efficiently unloading and distributing capacity being measured in TEUs. The 40-foot lengthsupplies. Instead of shipping commodities in bulk, army and container - literally '2 TEUs' - became known as the Forty-

navy specialists began to mix cargo by loading it onto foot Equivalent Unit (FEU).

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Showcase

Rishi Dev Ra+an, S/o Mr.J.Ganesh Ram, struckgold in a Javelin throw with 32.2 mts and silver in ashot put throw with 7,6 mts (8kg). He representedthe seniors of Pratap House in DAV Boys Sr.SecSchool, Gopalpuram's Annual AthleticChampionship conducted between 3-5th Aug 2008in Rajarathinam Stadium, Chennai.Congratulations Rishi!

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Ashwin Sankar, JointDirector had completed his oneyear MBA - General Programmein the University of Liverpool inUK earlier this year. On30thJune2008 he was centeredthe MBA degree by ProfessorSir Drummond Bon, ViceChancellor, University ofLiverpool at the graduationceremony.

Seen here: Ashwin Sankartossing up the graduation hatas a customary practice in theuniversity campus in Liverpool

Akassh Rathan, son of

Chandhan,s/o Mr.P.Balakumar, Stevedoring - Transport,PSTSL, Tuticorin studying in std I is a topper irthe School and on Stage!Seen Here:Receiving the prize for rankingfirst in school / Dressed up as Dr.Abdul kalamin a Fancy Dress Competition

TJ Kannaram & Swarnaparticipated in the dance dramacalled ” Eyes on Peacock's Tail" inthe Junior School Day2008 inSishyaSchool.Seen here; Akassh standingsecond from the left on the toprow

Editorial Team: Bharathy Ganesh Ram, Swarna Kama Ram

TJ Kannaram, ExecutiveDirector has been elected asthe Executive Committeemember for the secondconsecutive term of the TamilChamber of Commerce.Congratulations!

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