The company has acquired 76.84 acres of land in Gurugram, Haryana to develop a logistic park at Sohna in South Gurugram. With this investment, ESR expands its India footprint to 14 locations.

Plans to set up a warehouse at Balaghat in Madhya Pradesh. The project will help in physical distribution of goods like food grains, fertilisers, public distribution items, consumer goods, etc. and help in marketing of the products.

The ground-breaking ceremony has been done for the LNG import facility at Karaikal port. The facility is expected to commence commercial operations by the fourth quarter of 2021. It is being built on a 12-hectare site with an initial capacity of 1 MTPA, which can be increased to 6 MTPA in a phased manner.

AAI and its cargo wing AAICLAS will soon open a perishable cargo centre at Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport, Guwahati. It is being built by Assam Industrial Development Corporation (AIDC). AAI has leased 4050 SqM of land to AIDC for the purpose.

Warburg Pincus-backed logistics real estate firm ESR is planning to invest $250 million over the next 18 months to develop logistics parks in the country. This will help in doubling India’s warehousing capacity to 30 million sq ft, focussing on tier-II cities.

Jharkhand Government has signed an MOU with the Coal and Railways ministry to form a three-way joint venture for coal evacuation logistics from the North Karanpura coalfield area in the State. The JVC will have 64 per cent stake of the Coal Ministry, Railways share will be 26 per cent and the Jharkhand Government will have 10 per cent stake. The JVC will create 93.5-km rail infrastructure covering 1053 hectare between Tori-Shivpur-Kathotia rail line — for evacuation of coal from certain deposits in Central Coalfields Ltd’s North Karanapura area. The proposed rail project is to evacuate 200 million tonnes (mt) of thermal coal a year.

Electric mobility service provider plans to foray into the logistics segment and plug gaps in the last-mile connectivity area.

The West Bengal government is spending large on the infrastructure development of the state. The infrastructure spending has increased from Rs.1,758 crore in the year 2011 to Rs. 9,553 crore in 2019.

The civic body plans to decongest the New Delhi Railway station and the Delhi Gate area based on the multi-modal integration policy.