The last decade has seen a continuous evolution in global trade. This has led to the creation of a global supply chain for trade and transport. An automobile sold in the US or South America […]
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 […]
During the past year, the ports and shipping sector in India has undergone significant changes with the introduction of amendments, technological advancements, energy conservation measures and completion of projects, among other developments. The government has […]
Port traffic has witnessed fast-paced recovery from the pandemic and has been on an uptrend. A number of policies and reform measures have been introduced to attract greater private investments into the sector. The launch […]
The major ports under the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways registered an impressive growth in traffic movement of around 7 per cent (year on year) during 2021-22 over the previous year. Further, the Inland Waterways […]
The port sector in India is being driven by high growth in external trade. Imports from China soared to almost $100 billion in 2021. Indian exports to China too are steadily increasing. India’s import basket […]
At a time when the maritime industry was suffering from weak domestic performance and foreign trade difficulties, the Covid-19 pandemic created new hurdles. While the industry has begun to show signs of recovery since June […]
With the entry of new technology, materials and processes in the Indian construction industry, geosynthetics is gaining traction as a construction material across a wide range of civil engineering fields. One of the main reasons […]
Sagarmala is touted as one of India’s biggest programmes for the development of the maritime sector in the country. It is an ambitious national initiative aimed at bringing about a major improvement in the ports […]
The port sector has witnessed significant improvement in terms of capacity growth, better utilisation of information technology, improvement in efficiency through enhanced mechanisation and digitalisation, and decline in congestion at ports. The past two years […]
The ports and shipping sector is a key driver of trade in India. More than 90 per cent of India’s international cargo trading by volume is done via maritime transport. The government has taken many […]
Increasing investments and cargo traffic point to a healthy outlook for the Indian port sector. In the Maritime India Summit 2021, the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways (MoPSW) identified a total of 400 projects […]
The Sagarmala programme was launched by the Ministry of Shipping in July 2015 to harness the potential of the country’s 7,500 km long coastline, 14,500 km of conceivably navigable waterways, and a strategic location on […]
The Covid-19 outbreak has thrown the maritime sector into uncharted waters. The pandemic struck at a time when the sector was already in turbulent waters due to poor domestic performance and disruptions in international trade. […]
While the Covid-19 pandemic has severely affected the maritime sector, it has certainly strengthened the case for deploying more technology-based solutions. Technologies that were supposed to be deployed sequentially are now being implemented in parallel. […]
Budget 2018 is certainly a special one since it is the last one to be presented by the current government before the elections in 2019. The government has to a large extent set a populist […]
Project commissioning has been on the rise across infrastructure sectors in the past few years. In fact, the years 2016 and 2017 witnessed the completion of several projects owing to the government’s thrust on resolving […]
India Infrastructure Research tracked 87 projects (entailing an investment of more than Rs 5 billion each) in the Indian port sector, involving a combined investment of over Rs 3 trillion. Of these, three projects (Rs […]
With a 7,516 km long coastline, pristine island chains and abundant tourism sites, the Indian port sector offers several new areas of growth such as cruise tourism and roll-on, roll-off (ro-ro) ferries. Though the two […]
Time and again the government has reiterated its focus on infrastructure development. The Rs 3.6 trillion budget allocation to the sector for 2017-18 as compared to Rs 2.2 trillion in 2015-16 is a testament to […]
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