Waste-to-power plants yet to take off

July 2016

The proposal to generate power from waste continues to remain a non-starter with the successive state governments having miserably failed to take for...

Tags: Waste, Energy, Solid waste, Transportation, Dumping, Disposing, GHMC, Power

Railways abolishes dual freight rate

June 2016

Indian Railways has abolished the dual freight rate policy for transportation of iron ore to boost freight traffic volumes. This is also in response ...

Tags: Indian Railways, Transportation, Boost freight traffic volumes, Steel, Cement

Bagged it!

June 2016

MEP Infrastructure Developers Ltd in a JV with its Spanish partner has received LOAs from NHAI and MoRTH as per the new Hybrid Annuity Mode, which is...

Tags: MEP Infrastructure Developers Ltd, Transmission line, Residential project, Vehicles supply, Melamine plant, LTHE, Ash handling plant, NTPC Ltd, Highway widening, Powergrid Warora Transmission Ltd, Gadarwara-Warora transmission line project, NHAI, L&T Construction Transportation Infrastructure Business, Transformers, Powergrid Corporation of India

How safe are our roads?

April 2016

We travel in order to reach our destinations; we do not travel to die. Yet, that is exactly what 1.3 million road travelers do every year - die! It i...

Tags: Road travelers, GDP, Nitin Gadkari, Roads, Highways, Road transportation, Good Samaritan law, Road safety, Road Infrastructure

India is one of the fastest growing markets for tunnel construction

April 2016

Underground works in urban areas are the need of the hour. Mostly, all the cities in India are developing their underground metro transit systems, bu...

Tags: Kapil Bhati, Robbins Tunneling India, DMRC, metro systems, EPB TBM, AFCONS, TBM, Hydro-power, Infrastructure projects, Transportation, Water supply Ssewerage systems, Drilling & blasting, NATM, Tunnel Construction

Leadership Through Innovation

March 2016

Volvo Trucks entered the Indian commercial vehicle (CV) industry 17 years ago with a clear goal, to drive the change. The company focused on the mini...

Tags: Rama Rao A S, Volvo Trucks, Driving Progress, Commercial vehicle, Mining transportation, Container Workshop, Volvo tippers, Volvo Competence Development Centre, Dump truck, Global technology, Automated transmission system, Dynafleet Online, EXCON 2015

VECV Launches Pro 8031XM at Excon 2015

March 2016

Eicher Trucks and Buses, the leading brand from VE Commercial Vehicles (VECV) strengthened its presence in the mining and construction sector through...

Tags: Eicher Trucks, Buses, VE Commercial Vehicles, Mining, Construction, RMC, Road Construction, Infrastructure Projects, Port transportation

Craning for Opportunities

March 2016

From a global perspective, the equipment rental industry in India is in its nascent stage. Currently, the average off take for rental is 7-8 per cent...

Tags: Equipment rental, Heavy Duty Cranes, Processing, Transportation, Haulage, Power Generation, Utilities, COAOI, Ashwin Gandhi, Sunil Makad, Steel Carriers Infrastructure, Hitesh Obhan, Ishardas & Sons, CRISL, GDP