Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will dedicate to the nation India’s second riverine multi-modal terminal built at Sahibganj in Jharkhand on September 12. Modi will inaugurate the state-of-the-art terminal through a two -way digital communication system at an event in Ranchi, Jharkhand.

New Delhi: The Ministry of Shipping is keen to start inland waterways navigation and passenger transportation in the rivers in the North Eastern states of the country.

The year 2018 has been a significant one for the logistic and shipping sector in India.

In an exclusive interview, Kailash Agarwal, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Shipping, reveals that a roadmap has been created for increasing the Indian port capacity to 3,500+ MMTPA to more than cater to the projected traffic of 2,500 MMTPA by 2025.

HDC's key priorities are installation of one container handling crane (RMQC), mechanisation of Berth No 3 in PPP mode, and creation of liquid cargo handling facilities at Shalukali through PPP, and a goal to handle 65 MMTPA of cargo by 2021-22.

According to Sanjeev Sanyal, Principal Economic Adviser, Ministry of Finance, India could leverage significant reduction in inflation to lower the cost of capital for infrastructure projects over the next five years.

India has overtaken Japan to become the world's second largest steel producer.

The logistics industry has always been an underdog and has not received the much-deserved attention yet. Though the sector is full of potential, it is yet to achieve optimal utilisation of resources.

13 standardised state-of-the-art ship designs that are suitable for large barge haulage on river Ganga (National Waterway- 1) were made public by Inland Waterway Authority of India (IWAI).