How do you organise a largely unorganised industry? India´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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Tag: Garima P
Diversification and innovation are essentials
PSUs now believe in diversification a railside warehousing PSU is now expanding into cold chains, SEZs and FTZs. Vinod Asthana, MD, CRWC, tells Garima P and Shashidhar Nanjundaiah why this is a natural progression in the competitive world of logistics.
New MCA will have four changes, including dispute resolution
BK Chaturvedi, Member of the Planning Commission of India, is in the hot seat. It was his draft of the original MCA in roads that made all the difference to PPP in roads. Now it´s time to debug that document, he tells Garima P.
Have investors been withdrawing on account of the existing Model Concession Agreement (MCA) for highways?
Quite a few people have been attacking the MCA saying that provisions need to be changed. Now that the economy is not doing well, it is easy to blame the MCA for
Port operation -The efficiency factor
Slow evacuation of cargo from ports is only one of many operational hiccups that Indian ports are up against. Unsurprisingly, a majority of Indian ports have not invested sufficiently in mechanised material handling like its global peers.




