10.00 – 12:00, Friday

Need for right logistic & infrastructure

• Changing needs in the past few years
• Future requirements - 2020
• Logistics needs of bulk commodities
• Bulk scrap movers and their needs
• Freights affecting the end product
• Current Performance of the logistics solution providers
• Vertical integration from
• GST – reshaping logistics

Tea/Coffee will be served on the Tables

12:00 – 13:00 Friday

Railways Vision 2020

• Current capacity, utilization and demand
• Current problems with Indian Railways
• Can Railways tie up with shipping or road to better serve its customers
• Policy changes required from railways
• Freight for domestic and export movements - What more can Railways do to ease cost burden
• PPP

13:00 – 14:00

Lunch

14:15 – 15:30 Friday

Seaborne Logistics – Shipping, Containers & Ports

• Role of ports easing the cost burden
• Evaluation of different forms of transportation
• Inland waterways and coastal shipping – upcoming solutions
• Shipping lines, container yards, automated port handling equipment– future of Indian logistics?
• Challenges and problems – future assessment
• Key learning from global logistics providers
• Freight & Demurrage – India and International

15:30 – 17:00 Friday

Innovations in logistics – Conveyors, Slurry, Trucks & Pipes

• Analysis of future needs
• Truck movement – Tracking system, volatility in line haul, driverless trucks, rising freight giving truck owners an upper hand
• Road rails/ Truck rails
• Slurry pipe lines – Challenges & solution
• Conveyor belts
• Service Providers perspective
• Volatility in demand impacting logistics solutions
• Cost burden and problem assessment
• Comparison with European / American / Canadian logistics
• Technology Enabling Platform – Tracking devices

Tea/Coffee will be served on the Tables

17:00 – 18:00 Friday

PPP – Multimodal Logistics Hubs

• Success stories of Multimodal Logistics Park in developed economies
• Multimodal logistics movement in India – Issues & Concerns
• Investment concerns and solutions
• Multimodal Logistics Hubs – Need for coordinated action

Transition to hub and spoke model freight movement
Need for Efficient Logistics, Matching Global Standards - From the Solution Providers

18:00-18:30 Friday

Plenary Session (All Session Chair persons, Moderator and Organizer)