New Delhi, Jan 7: The country’s major ports are continuing to significantly improve their key operational performance parameters during the current financial year as they have handled higher cargo volumes with faster loading and unloading operations to enable ships to return more quickly as compared to the previous year. India has now risen to the 22nd rank in the International Shipment category in the World Bank’s Logistics Performance Index (LPI) Report from the 44th position in 2014.
The efficiency is reflected in the fact that the “Turn Around Time” at Indian ports has reached 0.9 days which is better than the US (1.5 days), Australia (1.7 days) and Singapore (1.0 days), according to official figures.
Digital services such as the Sagar-Setu mobile app have helped to improve the Ease of Doing Business further. It facilitates real-time port operations and monitoring and provides handled services to the port fraternity for accessing vessel, cargo, container, finance, and regulatory authority data and services, thereby improving the customer experience.