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Modest Growth
Traffic performance at major ports during 2016-17
Major ports handled 647.63 million tonnes (mt) of cargo traffic in 2016-17, a year-on-year growth of 6.79 per cent. The growth was supported by an inc...
- Trends and Outlook Sagarmala brings optimism, global trade recovery crucial
- Views of Kailash K. Aggarwal “Overall, port capacity is not a constraint to cater to future traffic for the next four-six years”
Growth Potential
Ample opportunity for dredging in other areas
Besides ports, dredging is undertaken in a number of other areas such as rivers, canals, lakes, dams/barrages, lagoons as well as sewerage and drainag...
- Trends and Outlook Sagarmala brings optimism, global trade recovery crucial
- Views of Kailash K. Aggarwal “Overall, port capacity is not a constraint to cater to future traffic for the next four-six years”
Pravir Krishna
“There is a lot of hope and optimism in the port sector”
Private sector participation in the Indian port sector has made significant headway. Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are steadily becoming the pref...
- Views of Vinod Kumar Yadav “IR is gearing up towards taking a quantum jump in infrastructure development”
- Views of S.K. Soonee “There is hardly any congestion in the transmission network”