Infrastructure Today India Opportunity Conference will be held in Toronto on 11 May, and hopes to generate interest among Canadian investors in India’s vast infrastructure opportunities. Where are the best opportunities? A peek.
Author: admin (Infratructure Today)
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Potential entrants are cautiously optimistic
Seeking to understand the Indian logistics sector better rather than to jump right in, potential investors and contractors from the developed nations are aware of the many a slip between the cup and the policymaker’s lip,
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It is better for business when you get prices from the market, not public
Amsterdam now operates in combination with Amsterdam city and Schiphol airport to create a regional logistics hub in the Netherlands. Now, Amsterdam and Mumbai have signed an MoU to collaborate in marketing and promotion.
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Bitten by the bug of (non-)implementation
It took staggering statistics of disasters and deaths for the rail ministry to finally take cognisance of the need for modernisation leading to transport safety, seamless logistics and smooth transactions.
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A private view
Pankaj Malviya describes the first ever PPP project with the Indian Railways—the Pipavav Railway—connecting the privately owned Pipavav port by rail to its biggest hinterland, the North. Predictably, this route is the epitome of modern practices and profitability.
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Solutions that stare Railways in the eye
Modernisation and technology go hand-in-hand, and clearly Indian Railways understands that. Its technology division, CRIS, has created several modules and technologies, many of which the Railways has not implemented in a standardised way.
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Default rate at ten-year high of 3.4 per cent: CRISIL
Credit quality pressures have intensified for India’s corporates in 2011-12 (refers to financial year April 1 to March 31). Instances of default by CRISIL-rated entities increased to 188, the highest for any year.
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6,500 km road contract awarded by NHAI during FY2011-12
8 Projects of 1144 kms were on bid on the 28th and 30th of March 2012. Seven projects got premium and in the remaining one case, the quoted amount was much lower than the expected bid. These bids gave a NPV saving of Rs 6451 Crores.
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The Predictability Issue
There are many ways in which private developers and contractors can (and do) jeopardise their own balance sheets. But given that the private sector works on profits and viability, it depends on the government in PPP
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Traffic underperformance is key risk
As NHAI attracts yet another round of premium bids, a report says that toll road projects in first-year traffic was below projections by up to 45 per cent.