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August was a good month. Duringa meeting of the Airport Advisory

Committee, it was decided to developPantnagar Airport at Uttarakhand asa cargo hub. This would fulfill theneeds of adjacent industrial areas andincrease connectivity with more flights.Meanwhile, the Indore Airport is soonto get its own air cargo facility with fivecompanies in the race for the licenceto run it. The draft of the Civil AviationPolicy is likely to come out by earlySeptember 2015.

Operators transporting their cargovia railways have a reason to rejoiceas two Dedicated Freight Corridors(DFC) projects on the Western andEastern routes have been sanctionedand are under implementation. Theunit cost of freight transport on the twocorridors will be lesser than that ofIndian Railways.

Movement of cargo via shipping isagain in focus after the Cochin Portwelcomed a trade delegation from the US and discussed port-led investments. Visakhapatnam PortTrust will soon have a cold storagefacility in its harbour, enablingexporters to store and export their perishable goods.

The Ministry of Shipping has decid-ed to prepare a National PerspectivePlan (NPP) for the entire coastline insix months, which will identify potentialgeographical regions to be calledCoastal Economic Zones (CEZs).Thirty projects for port augmentationand mechanisation of major portshave been targeted in the current year.

On the international front, an agreement between Cargolux andOman 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 businessThe Confederation of Indian Industry Institute of Logistics organised ‘SmartLogistics 2015–Ease of Doing Business’ at New Delhi to discuss about theusage of IT in value chain, mix of multiple transport modes, necessity ofmechanisation and need for green initiatives. Experts share their opinions:

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Logistics service providersthink of smarter ways of han-dling logistics. Among the ini-tiatives adopted for doing so ismultimodal way of transporta-tion and in India 50-60 percent of spending is on trans-portation. The second is infor-mation technology usage. Theindustry is facing an increas-

ing challenge of lack of skilled manpower because ofwhich mechanisation is a definite need.

Srinath Manda Programme Head – Transportation & Logistics

Frost & Sullivan

Logistics is not all aboutgoods’ movement but allwhat one wants to do inshort-term and long-term.India has the capability ofmaking logistics smartdespite infrastructural hur-dles. I believe that this is arevolutionary time for logis-tics and the biggest revo-

lution can be seen in the form of online retail, whichis going to be very successful in the coming years.

Manoj KapoorVice President and Head – APAC Service

Assurance, Alcatel Lucent India

The expectation of every sup-ply chain is minimising costswhile keeping reasonableservice, customer satisfaction,quality, on-time delivery.General strategies for supplychain are inventory, transportand location strategies andcustomer service goals. Indiais experiencing a GDP revivaland the growth rate of our country is much more than thatof China. Also, multimodal transportation is becomingimportant and going to dominate the market in future.

Prashant BhatmuleVice President – Supply Chain

Hindware India

IT is a value generator, adifferentiator, as it willdecide how businessneeds to be done. The ITsolutions for logistics haveto be interrelated, interac-tive, inclusive, individual-istic, unique and intelli-gent. Three things, whichare going to decide thesmart supply chain design, are Internet of Everythingderived from Internet of Things, Big Data and connected customers.

Asokan SattanathanFounder Director

Beta Solutions

Achieving perfect service isactually delivering on time andin the right quantity irrespectiveof channel. Costs in logisticscan be minimised by optimumutilisation of the availableassets. It is necessary to beable to automate quality controlespecially during multimodaltransportation. The drivers of

logistics in India are the business models of eCommerce,impending implementation of GST and finding the ways andmeans to use technology to leverage the costs.

Satya Narayan SahuDirector

SAP SCM and Manufacturing Solutions

Scarcity of skilled humanresources along with competitive demand for efficiency in logistics hasled to the introduction ofmechanisation in logistics.There is a necessity toincrease the percentage ofskilled human resources.Movement across various

modes is mechanised and now its being automatedtoo. eCommerce companies are able to deliver withinspecified time with help from mechanised transport.

Varghese AbrahamVice President

Total Shipping & Logistics

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