Must Read
Waterways emerging as fascinating & commercial transportation route
By IndianMandarins- 10 Jul 2018
870
Inland Waterways Authority of India (under the Ministry of Shipping) is making consistent efforts to transform the transportation landscape in India especially in the North-Eastern Region. The aim is to maximize the transportation potential through country's inland waterways and also to attract substantial investment from private sector.
As a preliminary exercise as part of its pilot projects, IWAI is all set to flag off a consignment of nearly 1600 tonnes of Emami's edible-oil on July 22 from Haldia to Pandu. While on the way back it will bring cement and stone-chips in volumes. In the initial stage, the effort is to demonstrate the commercial feasibility and break the prevalent perception that waterways transport in NE Region is non-commercial due to an import-oriented economy with less potential to export.
The efforts being made by IWAI in NE Region is just a part of Shipping Ministry's target to augment the present cargo consumption through Ganga waterways-route from 05 million tonnes to 22 million tonnes by years 2022 and to raise the country's inland waterways capacity to 100 million tons by the year 2022. Though he the target is high, Inland Waterways Authority is keen to achieve it.
Contrary to the perception NE Region has yearly cargo consumption of 25 million tonnes. At present, NE Region utilises its capacity to import goods from outside to the tune of 25 million tonnes and the same volume of goods it exports. In addition, there is internal flow of goods to the tune of 30 million tonnes. It is estimated that NE Region has the potential of 80 million tonnes of cargo consumption which is at present underutilised.
Apart from the consignment of Emami's edible oil (scheduled for 22 July), the IWAI is working hard to come up with 4-5 such demonstration and aspires to share the data with public sector so that they could see business and investment prospects and participate in transportation through inland waterways landscape in NE Region. The rapid development projects being undertaken by Hasina Govt in Bangladesh has opened up a whole lot of opportunities to supply its increasingly high demand for fly-ash, cement, stone-chips, gypsum etc through Indi-Bangladesh Protocol Route.
Waterways emerging as fascinating & commercial transportation route
By IndianMandarins - 2018-07-10 11:00:16
Inland Waterways Authority of India (under the Ministry of Shipping) is making consistent efforts to transform the transportation landscape in India especially in the North-Eastern Region. The aim is to maximize the transportation potential through country's inland waterways and also to attract substantial investment from private sector.
As a preliminary exercise as part of its pilot projects, IWAI is all set to flag off a consignment of nearly 1600 tonnes of Emami's edible-oil on July 22 from Haldia to Pandu. While on the way back it will bring cement and stone-chips in volumes. In the initial stage, the effort is to demonstrate the commercial feasibility and break the prevalent perception that waterways transport in NE Region is non-commercial due to an import-oriented economy with less potential to export.
The efforts being made by IWAI in NE Region is just a part of Shipping Ministry's target to augment the present cargo consumption through Ganga waterways-route from 05 million tonnes to 22 million tonnes by years 2022 and to raise the country's inland waterways capacity to 100 million tons by the year 2022. Though he the target is high, Inland Waterways Authority is keen to achieve it.
Contrary to the perception NE Region has yearly cargo consumption of 25 million tonnes. At present, NE Region utilises its capacity to import goods from outside to the tune of 25 million tonnes and the same volume of goods it exports. In addition, there is internal flow of goods to the tune of 30 million tonnes. It is estimated that NE Region has the potential of 80 million tonnes of cargo consumption which is at present underutilised.
Apart from the consignment of Emami's edible oil (scheduled for 22 July), the IWAI is working hard to come up with 4-5 such demonstration and aspires to share the data with public sector so that they could see business and investment prospects and participate in transportation through inland waterways landscape in NE Region. The rapid development projects being undertaken by Hasina Govt in Bangladesh has opened up a whole lot of opportunities to supply its increasingly high demand for fly-ash, cement, stone-chips, gypsum etc through Indi-Bangladesh Protocol Route.
