{"id":2662,"date":"2006-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2006\/01\/01\/indian-infrastructure-needs-us150bn\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:23:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:23:59","slug":"indian-infrastructure-needs-us150bn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2006\/01\/01\/indian-infrastructure-needs-us150bn\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian infrastructure needs US$150bn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The local stevedores were originally encouraged when investing in their operating licences, to also make investments in cargo handing equipment and other assets.<\/p>\n<p>Some of this money will be provided by the state, although the lion&#8217;s share will be sourced from the private sector and will help finance new container terminals at Mumbai, Kandla, Ennore, Chennai and Tuticorin.<\/p>\n<p>A recent report claims that India risks losing out on an additional 1-2% of annual growth because of the current inadequate nature of its transport infrastructure. In addition, handling costs are amongst the highest in the world, accounting for 11% of the total landed cost, which is 5% higher than the global average.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indias Transport Minister, T R Baalu, recently announced that his country is seeking up to US$150bn to fund port, road and other transport infrastructure projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-2662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2664,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662\/revisions\/2664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2662"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=2662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}