The highlight of the much-publicised event this year was as much the volumes pledged, as the state's efforts to set a platform for national and international investments.
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Maritime Agenda 2020: The awaited lift, finally
Reactive is better than non-active. The fact that the Maritime Agenda 2020 is the biggest documentation of our future vision in maritime ever is both heartening and concerning.
Expertspeak: New plan needed to achieve Agenda goals
Tuticorin port recently beat its own record, handling 24,550 mt of pet coke in a single day, but we will need many more record-breakers if we have to achieve the Agenda goals.
Spreading equitability
The more developed among our states must now focus on development that is both inclusive and as uniform as possible.
IVRCL arm bags Rs 1,550 cr highway project
IVRCL Infrastructures and Projects (IVRCL) has bagged a road project, estimated at Rs 1,550 crore, on the NH-59.
Ports and the state go together
You can see KeralaĆ¢ā¬ā¢s maritime initiatives brewing: In September last year, the cabinet approved a Maritime Board for the state, PPP bids are on, and the stage is now set for the state to see the projects through and to consolidate.
L&T bags GSECL project
Larsen & Toubro has secured an engineering, procurement and construction contract worth Rs 1,100 crore from Gujarat State Electricity Corporation.
Export zones: Need new forms of partnership
With 18 industrial parks, Kinfra still believes that KeralaĆ¢ā¬ā¢s best strengths are not fully harnessed. S Ramnath says that facilitation, rather than incentivisation, will be the strategy to attract investment in the export zones.
Look what's not moved: The Bill on the biggest immovable
Political expediency seems to be hijacking our land acquisition laws. On the one hand, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat have declared that acquisition can only occur by consent, and the Land Acquisition Act will not be invoked.
EPC gives scope to value engineering and project cost optimisation
The Engineering, Construction and Contracts (ECC) Division of L&T, whose major activity is under EPC, has a claim to be the largest construction and EPC company in the country.

