Category: Warehousing & Logistics

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Logistics: Driven by imponderables

Logistics: Driven by imponderables

Logistics sector and logistics costs are largely driven by many imponderables that occur in the global, national, and regional canvas. Therefore, it will be wrong on our part if we generalise issues and arrive on conclusions

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Winning edge

Winning edge

Yogesh Dhingra, Chief Operating Officer and Finance Director, Blue Dart Express, was awarded the 'CFO 100 Roll Of Honour 2013' at a glittering ceremony held at The President on 21 March 2013, Mumbai.

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Gateway’s ICD may start operation soon

Gateway’s ICD may start operation soon

The Inland Container Depot (ICD) of Gateway Distriparks at Faridabad may commence operations in first quarter of 2013-14. This will add volumes to the rail business of the company in future. In addition, the company is expanding its presence in the cold chain business. It plans to increase its pallet capacity in the cold chain business by 40 percent by the end

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First foreign container vessel arrives at Beypore

First foreign container vessel arrives at Beypore

The arrival of the first foreign container vessel at Beypore port bolstered the confidence of cargo dealers and stakeholders, said Abraham V Kuriakose, port officer. A container vessel, MV Karuthal of Trans Asia, with 1,600 metric tonne capacity arrived at the port recently on its way to Kochi from Jebel

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LCL strengthens presence in India

LCL strengthens presence in India

Jaison George, Director of Logistics at LCL Logistix remarked that the new Haldia container freight station (CFS) is the next milestone of the company's journey into total logistics and supply chain management solutions. LCL Logistix, which is the Indian member of the FPS network of independent forwarders and NVOCCs, is aggressively strengthening its presence in the value chai

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A subtle need of the hour

A subtle need of the hour

The immediate requirement would be to bring as many ports as possible on board to adopt green policies. A directive from the government in this regard will definitely serve the purpose