Steering Growth: Initiatives to promote coastal shipping and inland waterway transportation
Coastal and inland waterway transportation (IWT) is an energy efficient and eco-friendly means of transport that also helps reduce the cost of domestic freight movement. However, despite its long coastline of 7,500 km, the share […]
Last Ten Years…: PLF and installed capacity
The national plant load factor (PLF) registered a decline from 64.25 per cent in 2014-15 to 62.29 per cent in 2015-16. […]
Untapped Potential: IWT offers environment-friendly, cost-effective alternative
India has a potentially navigable river network of about 14,500 km, of which about 2,968 km or 20.4 per cent is operational. The central government has declared five waterways as national waterways (NWs). Of these, […]