Experts say that while it may be unfair to compare one port's efficiency level with another's, internal factors like the level of investment in mechanisation, and others including containerisation and availability of skilled labour are impacting port operations.
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Technology in Indian port operations
Much has been written about ports' need to keep pace with the increasing trade demand through implementation of state-of-the-art technology. Manish Saigal explains what newfangled technology and processes are priority and why.
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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.
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Innovative solutions
Back in the early 1990s, when the other tire companies in India were busy producing highway tires for mass use mostly, the leaders at Balkrishna Industries (BKT) foresaw a unique opportunity in international business and audaciously initiated production in the off-highway segment.
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Deltas Video wall at NTPC
Delta Displays successfully commissioned its state-of-the-art Video wall solutions at the Special Analytics and Computational Services (SACS) Centre of NTPC. Fleet Wide Management is an initiative of NTPC for continually monitoring the reliability
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A unique achievement
Thermal coal remains India's most important fuel used to generate electricity. With increasing environmental concerns, storage and handling of coal in large quantities has thrown up additional challenges. One of the major challenges lies in handling the coal in an environment-friendly manner.
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Project management lessons
As economic uncertainty continues to rage, organisations are recognising the value of project management as a critical capability that will steer them towards their business goals.
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Robust regulation for infrastructure is a necessary…
Although her bank itself has been lending to infrastructure for about a decade, she says that infrastructure finance is too infantile to be assessed for quality shedding light on the long-drawn and complex learning process the sectors and their financiers are experiencing.
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Q-railing Perfect customer solution
Q-railing India, formerly known as Carl F International, is a fully owned subsidiary of Q-railing Europe. Since the existence in India from the year 2000, Q-railing India has grown far beyond having offices all over India, led by dynamic team of professionals
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Not easy being the first PPP project
Implementing the first PPP in rail couldn't have been easy. While he prepares to enter into more JVs with the rail ministry, Pankaj Malviya, MD, Pipavav Railway Corporation Ltd (PRCL), explains to Shilpi Aggarwal how a clause helped bring down operational costs from nearly 100 per cent to just over 50 per cent