The India Warehousing Show 2016 was a great success story. Pragati Maidan was the destination for supply chain professionals from all over the country from 8th to 10th June 2016. There was tremendous buzz in social media over the event, due to the enthusiasm of the participants

The potential is enormous when you look from a macro perspective. In India only about 20 per cent of organisations look at warehousing services from a supply chain point of view, whereas globally the average is over 60 per cent.

With a stable government at the Centre, focusing on reviving and scaling India´s economic growth rate, India´s warehousing space is at the helm of tremendous growth. As companies scale their sentiments

Dedicated Freight Corridors are on the fast track with institutional finance from the World Bank and JICA. However, the roadmap for allied projects along the corridors is still not clear, writes Janaki Krishnamoorthi.

How do you organise a largely unorganised industry? India´s storage industry has lagged behind the transportation industry that it so heavily depends on. With cold chains now being an industry and FDI in retail entailing huge investments in storage, can we expect some movement?

PSUs now believe in diversification a railside warehousing PSU is now expanding into cold chains, SEZs and FTZs. Vinod Asthana, MD, CRWC, tells Garima P and Shashidhar Nanjundaiah why this is a natural progression in the competitive world of logistics.