Hill International secures $4 bn India rail contracts

June 2018

Global construction risk management provider Hill International has won two major rail contracts in India, amounting to $4 bn of work....

Tags: Construction, Risk management, Hill International, Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor

Need for shift from competition to collaboration to bring cost efficiencies in the Indian logistics sector

May 2018

Historically the different modes of transportation within the logistics industry have been competing against each other for market share because of w...

Tags: Transportation, Logistics, GDP, Dedicated Freight Corridor, Sagarmala, GST, ICRA, Shamsher Dewan, Infrastructure

Sagarmala will provide infrastructure support for logistics industry

March 2018

Over the last few years, the Government of India has rightly refocused attention on the shipping and logistics sector, and has recognised it as a key...

Tags: Government of India, Shipping, Logistics sector, EXIM, Make in India, Jal Marg Vikas project, Dedicated Freight Corridor, APM Terminals Inland Services, Mumbai Harbour Channel, JN Port Channel, Devarajan Mahadevan

Multimodal transport plan will reset India's logistics sector

March 2018

Nandan Yalgi, Managing Director, Boxco Logistics India Pvt Ltd, lauds the efforts of the Ministry of Shipping in launching port-led development proje...

Tags: Nandan Yalgi, Boxco Logistics India Pvt Ltd, Nitin Gadkari, IPRCL, Eastern, Western Dedicated Freight Corridors, PPP, Adani, JSW, JM Baxi Group, Rahul Kamat, Ports, Ministry of Shipping, Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd, IPRCL

The warehousing sector is going to experience a sea change in its structure

December 2016

With the total warehousing space requirement in the country´s top seven markets expected to grow from 621 mn sq ft in 2016 to 839 mn sq ft by 2020, t...

Tags: Dr SAMANTAK DAS, Infrastructure development, Knight Frank India, REIT, Investment Warehousing, National Manufacturing Policy, Government of India, DMIC, Western and Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridors, GST, CAGR, Balbirsingh Khalsa, Knight Frank India, GDP, Government of India

Indian logistics saw better growth while globally there was muted demand

December 2016

Big is definitely better for the warehousing services focusing on serving organised sectors. Economies of scale, cheaper land costs, more automation ...

Tags: Warehousing services, Automation, Higher Labour Utilisation, GST rollout, Make in India, 3PL, GDP, Dedicated Freight Corridors, Sagarmala, Doubling Road Network by 2022, Union Budget, Manish Panchal, TATA Strategic Management Group

Real Landscape

November 2016

Owing to depleting land resources, skyrocketing prices, decreasing potential in metros or Tier-I cities in India, real-estate development has been sl...

Tags: Tier-II, Tier-III cities, McKinsey Global Institute, JNNURM, STPI, Tata Housing, Ansal, Godrej Properties, Lodha, Omaxe, Raheja, DLF, Purvankara, Deep Kantawala, ICS Real Estate Partners

DFC: India inks agreement with WB

November 2016

A Guarantee Agreement for World Bank (IBRD) lending of $650 million to the Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Ltd for the Eastern Dedica...

Tags: World Bank, IBRD, Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Ltd, Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor, Raj Kumar, Hisham Abdo