Bhavnagar event sees MoUs signed for new ports, shipbuilding clusters, green transport, and financing partnerships. India’s maritime sector is poised for a transformative leap, with potential investments totalling ₹660 billion ($7.9 billion) inked at the recent ‘Samudra Se Samriddhi: Transforming India’s Maritime Sector’ event held on September 18 and 19 in Bhavnagar, Gujarat. According to...
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Govt to open automobile clusters near ports
Union Minister for Road Transport, Highways and Shipping, Nitin Gadkari has said that the government is planning to develop automobile clusters near port areas. He said that port-led development under the Sagarmala project is expected to attract Rs 12 lakh crore worth of investment.
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Opportunities in the cold chain sector
It remains to be seen if the National Food Processing Policy will help reduce wastage of perishables and improve the supply situation.
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Govt to boost port infrastructure
The Union government intends to boost investment in port infrastructure. By allowing port operators to tweak freight handling tariff for new public- private partnerships projects in the 12 government-owned ports. It's a clarion call for more investment in port infrastructure. The government's new guidelines for future port projects will allow port operators to annually increase, upto a set limit, cargo handling rates, on the basis of market forces.
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Ports should set their own tariffs, not TAMP
Regulatory and clearance delays may be necessary evils in infrastructure projects, especially those under PPP. But as N Muruganandam, Joint Secretary, Union Ministry of Shipping, elaborates the government's ambitious plans of port infrastructure development in the coming years may also be accompanied by some ironing out of those issues.
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Time to revisit port legislations
Ports in India have always been taken recourse to Port Trusts, but after the arrival of PPP in ports, this should change, says A Balasubramanian.