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Andhra Pradesh is good positioned to look arsenic the ‘Eastern Gateway of Global Logistics’ arsenic it has chiseled advantages implicit different States backed by the government’s argumentation support, and that strategical value was fixed to Public-Private Partnerships (PPP), according to Special Chief Secretary (Roads & Buildings and Infrastructure & Investments) M.T. Krishna Babu.
In a presumption connected the taxable ‘Global champion logistics - Eastern gateway’ made astatine the Chief Minister’s gathering with Ministers and Secretaries connected Monday, Mr. Krishna Babu said the government’s endeavour was to person the lowest logistics cost in India, for which a program has been prepared, and efforts started to execute that goal.
He mentioned that the halfway nonsubjective was to integrate roads, ports, airports, and inland waterways into a seamless web that would not lone assistance trim logistics outgo substantially but besides guarantee faster transportation of goods to home and planetary markets.
An AI- based logistics absorption strategy and Unified Logistics Interface Platform were being developed for adopting precocious technologies.
Twelve high-traffic roads were being developed successful PPP mode astatine a outgo of astir ₹7,780 crore. A full of 161 roadworthy projects covering 3,358 km were successful the pipeline astatine a outgo of ₹76,738 crore and they would beryllium completed by the extremity of 2028.
Mr. Krishna Babu said railway projects worthy astir ₹3.21 lakh crore covering 7,953 km were successful assorted stages, and that the Bhogapuram International Airport (scheduled to go operational by June 2026) would springiness a large boost to the State’s aviation sector, on with 9 greenfield airports nether development.
The State authorities focused connected the improvement of shipbuilding and craft MRO (Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul) services.
Machilipatnam, Ramayapatnam, Mulapeta and Kakinada Gateway ports were being developed astatine a full outgo of ₹13,901 crore. The owed accent was laid connected improving cultivation logistics to enactment the nutrient processing industries whose imaginable was mostly untapped, Mr. Krishna Babu added.
