It seems controllable and uncontrollable factors have converged on the infrastructure sector, causing lenders and investors to step back in their plans. Ranjit Manjarekar, COO Infrastructure Finance, Tata Capital, tells Infrastructure Today that lack of visibility of returns, stemming from uncertainties, is a big dampener, but tells us how his firm is manoeuvring around the roadblocks to identify the right segments to go after.
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Lifting solutions from Konecranes
Konecranes introduces lifting solutions that provide high levels of flexibility, performance, and safety. They have been developed to meet the needs of the steel industry -from the raw material handling to the steelmaking, rolling and refining processes. Konecranes supplies all types of cranes, such as ladle, charging, billet, slab, coil, bar and plate handling, and scrap yard.
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HCC gets IRCON contract
Hindustan Construction Company (HCC) has been awarded a contract worth Rs 442.52 crore by IRCON International to construct one tunnel and two bridges between Aprinchala and Sumber stations on Dharam and Qazigund Section of the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla New Broad Gauge Railway Line Project. The project will be completed in 48 months.
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The slip between the cup and the lip
India wastes one out of every six sacks of fruits and vegetables ever year due to a cold chain system that fulfils less than half the requirement. Investment of Rs 55,000 crore is needed to catch up, an industry report says.
Although report after report has pointed out how India wastes its produce whether it is foodgrains or cash crops the logistics and wareĆĀ”housing industry in India remains woefully inadequate and of poor quality. A new report on the worldĆĀ“s second largest producer of fruits
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Warehousing: The truck stops here
How do you organise a largely unorganised industry? IndiaĆĀ“s storage industry has lagged behind the transportation industry that it so heavily depends on. With cold chains now being an industry and FDI in retail entailing huge investments in storage, can we expect some movement?
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Thermal coal imports via major ports up
The major ports in the country handled around 5.5 million tonne (mt) of imported thermal coal, which is up by 10 per cent on the year, while coking coal imports rose 21 per cent to 3.4 mt, says latest data by Indian ports Association (IPA). The 12 ports handled 47.8 mt of imported thermal coal during April-November, up 35.7 per cent from 35.2 mt from the same period a year ago.
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NBP blueprint by March 31
The blueprint for the National Broadband Plan (NBP) to connect 160 million Indian households with high-speed Internet connections by 2014,will be ready by the end of this fiscal.