The economic benefits of inland waterways

A senior executive from a container train operator was recently scouting for warehousing space in eastern India for the setting up of a container terminal for the movement of bulk cargo by rail. Setting up a container terminal with a railway siding can be prohibitively expensive. He was rueing the fact that he was standing just 5 kilometres away from the Ganges, but could not exploit inland waterways transport (IWT) due to the absence of a riverine terminal capable of handling bulk cargo.

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