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Telangana is poised to go a starring logistics hub connected the backmost of its strategical location, successful the country, beardown multimodal connectivity and the projected Logistics Policy 2.0, Industries and IT Minister D. Sridhar Babu said present connected Friday.
Infrastructure-led maturation is astatine the bosom of the strategy and the upcoming Mega Multimodal Logistics Park successful Manoharabad, expanding aerial cargo capabilities and world-class skilling ecosystem acceptable to beryllium cardinal enablers for the translation of the State, the Minister said.
Mr. Sridhar Babu, who was addressing the International Conference connected Shipping and Logistics 2026 (ICSL 2026) organised by the Federation of Telangana Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FTCCI), said the State authorities done a multi-pronged attack sought to crook Telangana’s landlocked geography into a strategical advantage. Under the Logistics Policy 2.0 it plans to beforehand improvement of mega multimodal logistics parks, adust ports, bonded warehousing facilities and integrated logistics hubs.
Telangana has transformed its cardinal determination into an vantage and it is evident successful the State contributing astir 5% of India’s GDP, ranking seventh among merchandise-exporting States and registering exports of much than ₹1.61 lakh crore successful 2024–25. It was ranked 8th nationally and 2nd among landlocked states successful the Export Preparedness Index 2024, the Minister said, inviting investors and manufacture leaders to spouse with the State.
“Telangana is acceptable to link markets, enactment manufacture and physique the logistics ecosystem of the future. Come, put successful Telangana. Grow with Telangana,” helium said, calling for investments successful multimodal logistics, rail-linked infrastructure, aerial cargo, cold-chain networks, Grade-A warehousing, automation, integer logistics platforms and greenish mobility solutions.
The organisers successful a merchandise said FTCCI President R. Ravi Kumar highlighted however Hyderabad is uniquely positioned to look arsenic India’s premier hub-and-spoke logistics destination. Strengthening of obstruction connectivity to Inland Container Depots and processing aerial connectivity successful emerging concern centres specified arsenic Warangal, Karimnagar and Khammam volition beryllium captious to unlocking the State’s afloat logistics potential, helium said.
