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    Logistics performance as facilitator to trade performance: An Indian perspective
    (The International Maritime Transport and Logistics Conference "MARLOG 13", 2024-03-03) Dasgupta, Mrinal Kumar; Mitra, Toorban; Pattanaik, Krushna Mohan
    With the growing realisation of the importance of global integration in the production and consumption value chain, the importance of maritime logistics and transportation facilitating international trade is profoundly recognised. Further, a proliferation of collaborative trade agreements among different trade partners is ascribed to play a significant role. However, such external dynamics and engagements in international trade would propel blue economic growth if backed by strong maritime logistics initiatives and establishment. In this context, deep routed challenges, particularly in the domestic maritime logistics sector in manufacturing hubs like India, could potentially hamper her comparative advantages in international trade. It is in this context that this paper comes as an intercession by analysing India’s Logistics Performance Index (LPI) and its impact on trade performance. Also, this paper provides a comparative analysis of India’s LPI with that of other trade competitors from South and East Asia and tries to find out challenging areas of maritime logistics for India and suggest the required policy prescription thereof. Such acknowledgement is a compulsion for a country like India when escalated uncertainties due to episodes of COVID-19, the Russia-Ukraine War, and dips in the business cycles of many countries that demanded green and resilient supply chain and logistics practices. The paper prescribes that domestic reforms to ease out challenges in Indian maritime logistics coupled with external engagements would provide a flat form for India to reap the optimal gains from international trade.
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    The prospects of dredging and indigenization of dredger design
    (Dredge India INAvation 2015 conference, 2015) Eswara, Arun Kishore; Ramesh, U. S.
    The scope for dredging in India is potentially vast, looking at the prospects of development and maintenance of existing major ports, building new ports, offshore resources exploration, demand from navy and more interestingly the projects envisaged for national waterways. The capital dredging demand during 2012-2017 is about 639 million m3 and that of maintenance dredging during the same period is about 521 million m3. This requires the employment of substantial number of dredgers of varying capacities. The minor sector dredging demand of about 100 million m3, during the said period, offers additional opportunity for dredging. The modal shift of cargo to inland and coastal waterways offers bright prospects for a sustainable economic prosperity. The government encouragement for “Make in India” has brought in a lot of economic interest as well. This is an excellent period to target for indigenization of dredger manufacture. Locally manufactured dredgers not only reduce costs of dredging but also encourage business climate. Further, it will enable India to produce globally competitive world class dredgers. The present paper is written in this context of presenting our study1 encompassing the scope for dredging activity, identifying suitable types and capacities of dredgers for employment in India. The paper also touches upon the present shipbuilding infrastructure, dredger equipment manufacturers and a road map for indigenization. The paper concludes with forecasting future dredging demands, scope for native dredgers manufacture, identifying a particular target range for indigenization.