The document summarizes developments in India's cargo and logistics sector in August 2015. Key points include: - Pantnagar Airport in Uttarakhand will be developed as a cargo hub to serve nearby industries. Indore Airport is getting an air cargo facility. - Two new dedicated freight rail corridors on the western and eastern routes are being implemented to lower freight transport costs relative to Indian Railways. - Shipping of cargo is increasing, including plans for a cold storage facility at Visakhapatnam Port and identifying Coastal Economic Zones along India's coastline. - International cargo flights between Chennai and Muscat will increase connectivity between India, the Middle East and Europe.

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August was a good month. During
a meeting of the Airport Advisory
Committee, it was decided to develop
Pantnagar Airport at Uttarakhand as
a cargo hub. This would fulfill the
needs of adjacent industrial areas and
increase connectivity with more flights.
Meanwhile, the Indore Airport is soon
to get its own air cargo facility with five
companies in the race for the licence
to run it.The draft of the Civil Aviation
Policy is likely to come out by early
September 2015.
Operators transporting their cargo
via railways have a reason to rejoice
as two Dedicated Freight Corridors
(DFC) projects on the Western and
Eastern routes have been sanctioned
and are under implementation. The
unit cost of freight transport on the two
corridors will be lesser than that of
Indian Railways.
Movement of cargo via shipping is
again in focus after the Cochin Port
welcomed a trade delegation from
the US and discussed port-led
investments. Visakhapatnam Port
Trust will soon have a cold storage
facility in its harbour, enabling
exporters to store and export their
perishable goods.
The Ministry of Shipping has decid-
ed to prepare a National Perspective
Plan (NPP) for the entire coastline in
six months, which will identify potential
geographical regions to be called
Coastal Economic Zones (CEZs).
Thirty projects for port augmentation
and mechanisation of major ports
have been targeted in the current year.
On the international front, an
agreement between Cargolux and
Oman Air will see new freighter
flights between Muscat and Chennai,
turning the latter into a cornerstone for
transportation of cargo between India,
the Middle East and Europe.
Aiming high
Smart Logistics: Ease in business
The Confederation of Indian Industry Institute of Logistics organised‘Smart
Logistics 2015–Ease of Doing Business’at New Delhi to discuss about the
usage of IT in value chain, mix of multiple transport modes, necessity of
mechanisation and need for green initiatives. Experts share their opinions:
CT BUREAU
Logistics service providers
think of smarter ways of han-
dling logistics. Among the ini-
tiatives adopted for doing so is
multimodal way of transporta-
tion and in India 50-60 per
cent of spending is on trans-
portation.The second is infor-
mation technology usage.The
industry is facing an increas-
ing challenge of lack of skilled manpower because of
which mechanisation is a definite need.
Srinath Manda
Programme Head – Transportation & Logistics
Frost & Sullivan
Logistics is not all about
goods’ movement but all
what one wants to do in
short-term and long-term.
India has the capability of
making logistics smart
despite infrastructural hur-
dles. I believe that this is a
revolutionary time for logis-
tics and the biggest revo-
lution can be seen in the form of online retail, which
is going to be very successful in the coming years.
Manoj Kapoor
Vice President and Head – APAC Service
Assurance, Alcatel Lucent India
The expectation of every sup-
ply chain is minimising costs
while keeping reasonable
service, customer satisfaction,
quality, on-time delivery.
General strategies for supply
chain are inventory, transport
and location strategies and
customer service goals. India
is experiencing a GDP revival
and the growth rate of our country is much more than that
of China. Also, multimodal transportation is becoming
important and going to dominate the market in future.
Prashant Bhatmule
Vice President – Supply Chain
Hindware India
IT is a value generator, a
differentiator, as it will
decide how business
needs to be done. The IT
solutions for logistics have
to be interrelated, interac-
tive, inclusive, individual-
istic, unique and intelli-
gent. Three things, which
are going to decide the
smart supply chain design, are Internet of Everything
derived from Internet of Things, Big Data and
connected customers.
Asokan Sattanathan
Founder Director
Beta Solutions
Achieving perfect service is
actually delivering on time and
in the right quantity irrespective
of channel. Costs in logistics
can be minimised by optimum
utilisation of the available
assets. It is necessary to be
able to automate quality control
especially during multimodal
transportation. The drivers of
logistics in India are the business models of eCommerce,
impending implementation of GST and finding the ways and
means to use technology to leverage the costs.
Satya Narayan Sahu
Director
SAP SCM and Manufacturing Solutions
Scarcity of skilled human
resources along with
competitive demand for
efficiency in logistics has
led to the introduction of
mechanisation in logistics.
There is a necessity to
increase the percentage of
skilled human resources.
Movement across various
modes is mechanised and now its being automated
too.eCommerce companies are able to deliver within
specified time with help from mechanised transport.
Varghese Abraham
Vice President
Total Shipping & Logistics
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