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Crown Worldwide opens third phase of records management centre in Chennai

With the completion the 3rd phase at an investment of $2 million, the unit now has a storage capacity of over 1.8 million standard carton equivalent (SCEs), with additional 40,000 SCE of vault storage

Shipping Ministry launches marine logistics portal to smoothen sea trade

The single-window platform aims to bring all trade stakeholders together and reduce logistics cost with real-time mapping and provisioning

PM Gati Shakti to help reduce logistic obstacles, improve efficiency: DPIIT

The PM GatiShakti initiative will play a significant role in reducing the logistics cost, increasing efficiency and benefitting businesses, a top government official said on Monday. On October 13 last year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Gati Shakti- National Master Plan aimed at developing an integrated infrastructure to reduce logistic costs. All logistics and connectivity infrastructure projects, entailing an investment of over Rs 500 crore, are routed through the NPG (network planning group), constituted under the PM GatiShakti initiative. PM GatiShakti "will play a significant role in reducing the logistic obstacles and increase logistics efficiency and benefit the businesses," Secretary in the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) Anurag Jain said here at the inaugural session of B20 Inception Meeting, organised by industry body CII. He also said that the PM GatiShakti portal has over 1,600 data layers related to subjects such as land, ...

Budget 2023 should create roadmap for sustainable growth: Logistics sector

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is scheduled to present the Union Budget 2023-24 in the Lok Sabha on February 1

Logistics, defence see MoUs worth Rs 16,400 crore in Uttar Pradesh

The agreements were inked recently with the companies incorporated in the US and Canada, a senior government official said

Indian start-ups take 5 yrs to cross $100 mn revenue mark: Redseer

There are about 100 unicorns and 170 soonicorns in India. Of these 270 firms, over 40 start-ups in the fintech, e-commerce, and logistics sectors have crossed $100 million in revenue as of FY22

UP to develop dry ports, freight con­tainer stations to boost exports

The government has said it would also leverage the Varanasi-Haldia inland waterway to catalyse exports

Delhivery to acquire supply chain solutions firm Algorhythm Tech

Algorhythm offers end-to-end supply chain planning and execution products to clients

Hello Logistics sues Instacart founder Mehta for creating 'copycat' startup

Hello Logistics Inc., which operates under the name NextMed, sued Mehta, his business partner Tejasvi Singh, and their company Cloud Health Systems over allegations of misappropriation of trade secret

Warehousing and logistics supplies likely to double by 2030: Report

Warehousing and logistics supplies are likely to double to cross 700 million square feet by 2030, for which more than USD 20 billion additional investment is needed, a report said on Thursday. According to a report by the CBRE Group, which is the world's largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, during the first nine months of 2022 saw the sector getting only about USD 144 million across greenfield and brownfield assets from global investors. The report said that leasing activity in the segment grew 40 per cent to 9.2 million square feet in the third quarter over second quarter. The warehousing and logistics sector requires at least USD 20 billion of fresh investments by 2030 to develop incremental warehousing spaces, most of which will be needed in tier-II and III cities, said the report. It is also estimated that the warehousing and logistics stock will double by 2030 to cross 700 million square feet as occupiers continue to expand across segments such as ...

Logistics services platform Delhivery now live on government's ONDC

Logistics services provider Delhivery on Thursday said its network is now live on the government's Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) platform

Welspun One Logistics Parks Fund 1 commits Rs 500 crore warehousing AIF

Creates a portfolio of Rs 2,300 crore across five cities, aggregating to about 6.6 million square feet of gross leasable area

Here is why bidders are keen on Future Group's logistics, warehousing arm

Sources say these companies have expressed their interest in Future Retail assets in the hope that they will acquire assets of Future Supply Chain Solutions as well

EvolutionX Debt Capital makes maiden investment in PharmEasy parent firm

Debt financing platform's investment amount was not revealed; it will make equity infusion later

IndoSpace to invest Rs 3,000 cr in warehousing, logistics space in K'taka

Industrial and logistic parks developer IndoSpace on Friday announced that it will invest Rs 3,000 crore in Karnataka's warehousing and logistics space. The firm already has a strong footprint in the state with its Grade-A industrial parks operational in Bommasandra, Nelamangla I and upcoming facilities in Nelamangala II and Naraspura. IndoSpace said it has signed an initial pact with the Karnataka government for this proposed investment in the state. The pact is for a period of seven years and expected to generate 14,000 new jobs. This investment will help attract further investments in the state and help meet the increasing demands of industries linked with warehousing and logistics, the company said. Karnataka has a growing base in sectors like automobile, electronics, aerospace, agriculture, textiles and engineering and IndoSpace looks to help these industries with warehousing and logistics facilities, said Rajesh Jaggi, Vice Chairman for Real Estate, Everstone Group. IndoSpa

Logistics firm OBCL bags Rs 150-crore transportation contract from Vedanta

Logistics firm Orissa Bengal Carrier Limited (OBCL) has entered into an agreement with mining major Vedanta Limited for the transportation of finished aluminium items. The deal is of around Rs 150 crore and the period of the transportation pact is one year, OBCL said in a statement on Thursday. "OBCL enters into a Rs 146 crore contract with Vedanta Limited led by Anil Agarwal," the Raipur-based company said. As part of the agreement, OBCL said, it will transport finished aluminium items to western business clusters. Vedanta has aluminium processing units in the states of Chhattisgarh and Odisha.

Festival season propels demand for third-party logistics players

Further penetration into smaller cities will only add to this dependence on third-party delivery partners

Best of BS Opinion: Enhancing yields, a leg-up for logistics, and more

Here is the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for today

A leg-up for logistics

The multi-pronged National Logistics Policy is a well-timed initiative

FM Sitharaman asks states to lessen logistics burden on exporters

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday asked States to adopt a multi-modal approach and ensure logistics did not become a burden on exporters. She said the PM Gati Shakti was a beautiful protocol with which a synergy could be brought in. Delivering the inaugural address after inaugurating the third campus of the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade in Kakinada, Sitharaman referred to 'One District-One Product' and 'Vocal for Local', initiatives, aimed at promoting local products and creating their export markets. She said the Commerce Ministry was working on getting an export policy that would help the exporters by giving them incentives and promoting many things. There's a repetitive and very relevant line that the Commerce Minister refers to We can't be exporting taxes.' We also should identify ways in which those taxes whether Centre, State or local that are on these products should be removed so that we don't burden their exporters, the Finance Minister said. The