The Rajiv Gandhi Container Terminal of the Kochi Port is experiencing heavy shortage of reefer plug points, which is affecting the movement of reefer containers meant for export from seafood factories to the terminal, reported The Hindu.

Sources in the seafood industry said that shippers are forced to hold reefer containers in their factories, thereby, incurring huge costs towards power consumption and delays in shipments, which are mainly Christmas/New Year contract consignments to Europe, the US, Far East and West Asia destinations.