India launched its first gas trading exchange on June 15, 2020, enabling local and foreign players such as Shell, Vitol and Trafigura to sell directly to domestic customers. India is expanding its gas infrastructure, including […]
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) is set to open city gas distribution (CGD) networks across the country to competition, allowing participation of more than one player in a circle. The PNGRB has finalised […]
The Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH) has allowed companies to monetise oil and gas discoveries without undergoing the time-consuming procedure of government approvals for field development plans and other bureaucratic processes. According to the DGH, […]
The Himachal Pradesh government has announced that the state has become the first in the country where all households have liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) gas connections. Reportedly, as many as 136,000 families in the state […]
IOCL has set up a product application and development centre (PADC) at Paradip at a capex of Rs 430 million in order to facilitate and support the development of the polymer industry in Odisha as well as […]
During the first three months (April-June) of the ongoing fiscal year (2020-21), Indian major ports handled 141.92 million tonnes (mt) of traffic, as compared to 176.7 mt in the corresponding period of 2019-20, registering a […]
P-CaSo, a collaborative logistics platform, has been latched with the port community system, PCS1x. The move is expected to enable business-to-business and business-to-consumer digital solutions for Indian logistics users on PCS1x.
GOCON, a digital transport aggregator platform that connects trailer and truck operators with shippers, on-boarded the collaborative P-CaSo platform. This service is already live on PCS1x.
Portall, a logistics management application developed by the JM Baxi Group, has partnered with Return Trucks (RT), a digital platform that connects transport operators (trailers and truckers) for smooth cargo shipment. The RT service can […]
Mormugao port has decided to waive working anchorage charges, wharfage applicable at stream, and transhipper/floating crane charges for lighterage operations at west-of-breakwater (WOB) to vessels lightering at WOB, bringing the lightered cargo to public-private partnership […]
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has deployed its terminal operating system (ToS), TCS DynaPORT, at Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Limited’s Mundra T4 terminal. DynaPORT is a one-stop solution for order-to-invoice processes and supports multimodal […]
The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) has introduced IT functionalities for supporting contactless customs under its flagship programme, Turant Customs. It has also introduced modern testing equipment in the Central Revenues Control […]
As of May 31, 2020, the Indian shipping industry had a fleet of 1,435 vessels of 12.75 million gross tonnage (GT) and 19.37 million dead weight tonnage (DWT). Of these vessels, 976 were coastal vessels […]
CBIC has introduced a secure QR-coded shipping bill that would be sent to exporters electronically after the customs allows exports. The development comes in light of CBIC’s efforts to ensure faceless, paperless and contactless customs […]
The maiden containerised movement from Haldia to Pangaon, Dhaka, Bangladesh, through National Waterway-1 and the Indo-Bangladesh protocol route commenced from the Haldia international container terminal on June 30, 2020. The vessel, M.V. Pruthvi, operated by […]
A new regular shipping service has started between the Kolkata Dock System (KDS) and Chattogram port, Bangladesh, through the Indo-Bangladesh Protocol Route with effect from July 3, 2020. The service is operated by Zim Integrated […]
The prime minister has formally launched the auction for 41 coal mines for commercial mining as part of the Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan. The Ministry of Coal has notified the tender detailing the blocks to be […]
The Ministry of Power (MoP) has notified an order issuing directions to protect the security, integrity, and reliability of the strategically important critical power supply system and network in the country. According to the order, […]
The governments of India and Bhutan have signed a concession agreement for the development of the 600 MW Kholongchhu hydroelectric project (HEP) in Trashiyangtse, Bhutan. This is the first time an India-Bhutan HEP will be […]
The Solar Energy Corporation of India’s (SECI) tender for 2 GW of interstate transmission system (ISTS)-connected solar projects has received a record low bid of Rs 2.36 per unit. The lowest tariff was quoted by […]
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