Long-term success of steel companies would be determined by investment in raw material security, capital project management, customer centric measures, a study by consulting firm Accenture shows. The study also laid emphasis on building differentiated supply chains and securing human capital for t
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Solar power equipment firms must focus on quality
Mercom Capital Group is a clean energy communications and consulting firm with offices in the United States and India. Mercom consults its clients on market entry, strategy, policy, due-diligence and joint ventures.
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India enters 1 billion-tonne rail cargo club
Indian Railways, by carrying 100 million tonne cargo in March, has entered the select group of countries such as the US, China and Russia that load a billion tonne of cargo in a year. It is the second time for Indian Railways to carry such a large volumes in a month.
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Accord industry status to logistics: Experts
Lack of coordination between the various government agencies that are involved in the road/highway construction business and improper policy initiatives hamper the prospects of roads sector, experts feel.
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BRICS to set up development bank for infra projects
At the recently concluded BRICS summit in Durban, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa decided to set up a development bank to finance infrastructure projects in these countries. But the countries have not decided the size of the proposed bank, leaving it to finance ministers to nego
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Container traffic at Chinese ports rises
Container traffic at the ports in northern Hebei of China rose 22.8 percent on a year-on-year basis to 142,000 Twenty Foot Equivalent Unit (TEU) in the first 2 months 2013. The collective cargo throughput increased 10.9 percent to 134.83 million tonne (mn t). While the port of Qinh
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Need for innovation
The oil & gas industry's ever-increasing need for innovation will compel companies to invest in technology development, and the pace of innovation will differentiate companies from each other.
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Godrej calls for road link to Bangladesh, Myanmar, China
Better infrastructure is essential along the 3,000-km road link between India and the three South Asian countries-Bangladesh, Myanmar and China, said Adi Godrej, Godrej Group Chairman and CII president last week. Speaking to the media after flagging off the 12-day Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar Forum for Regional Cooperation (BCIM) Car Rally in Kolkata, Godrej said road infrastructure should be improved since the link connecting these four countries was largely difficult terrain.
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China allays fears of India on Gwadar Port
Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan, Liu Jian allayed fears of the Indian government about Pakistan handing over management of Gwadar Port to China. Speaking at a function, the ambassador said the transfer of management is in the economic interest of the peoples of China and Pakistan
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Imphal-Jiribam h’way stretch remains in bad shape
The Imphal-Jiribam stretch of National Highway 37 will not be fit for an international car rally when the Bangladesh, China, India, Myanmar car rally enters the State on February 26 from Kolkata. Though the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) has been maintaining that the Ministry concerned, in this case the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, has not sanctioned anything to repair a 26 km stretch of the said highway for the car rally, it has come to light that a sum of Rs 45 crore was recently