<span style="color: #222222;">In Maharashtra, Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari said that, since the city of Nagpur is a place of zero mile and is at&nbsp; the heart of the country, it&nbsp;has the full&nbsp;potential of&nbsp;becoming a logistics capital. He was speaking in Nagpur today,&nbsp; on the occasion of the memorandum of understanding (MoU)&nbsp; signing ceremony&nbsp; between&nbsp;the National Highways Authority and Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) today&nbsp; for&nbsp; setting&nbsp; up a multi-modal logistics park at Dryport in&nbsp; Wardha district's Sindhi (Railway).</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">&nbsp; &nbsp;</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Through this multi-model park, worldwide export opportunities will be&nbsp; made available from the Sindhi (Railway) Dry Port of Wardha. Mr. Gadkari also expected that the park would provide employment opportunities to 50,000 people in the next five years.&nbsp; For this project, the National Highways Authority has established&nbsp; National Highway Logistics Management Limited (NHLML),a&nbsp; Special Purpose Vehicle- and&nbsp; JNPT will start working with this S.P.V.&nbsp; Gadkari said that&nbsp; the multi-modal logistics park would help in reducing the&nbsp; logistic cost&nbsp; for exports in the country.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">&nbsp; </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Mr. Gadkari informed that,&nbsp; The&nbsp; multi-modal logistic&nbsp; park would be connected to the railway and Mumbai-Nagpur&nbsp; Samruddhi Highway as well as the Nagpur-Hyderabad National Highway. This park&nbsp; would have a facility of&nbsp; cold storage containers&nbsp; which would enable perishable fruits and vegetables to last longer&nbsp; and farmers' farm produce and other goods could be exported at affordable logistic cost.&nbsp; Gadkari also suggested that all the associations in Vidarbha&nbsp; like&nbsp; Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Laghu Udyog Bharti and Vidarbha Industries Association should come together and hold a seminar&nbsp; on the issue to take advantage of this export facility.</span>
News On AIR | October 22, 2021 8:04 PM
Nagpur has full potential of becoming a logistics capital: Nitin Gadkari