Mou signed for cargo motion by Barges over Inland Waterways

Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) Signed a Memorandum of Undrstanding (MOU) With Rhenus Logistics India Non-public Restricted, on Might 6, 2025. Picture Credit score: PIB

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In a bid to begin barge companies for transporting cargo throughout key nationwide waterways, the inland waterways Authority of India (iwai) on Tuesday (Might 6, 2025) Signed a Memorandum of UNDERSTANDING (MOUNDERSHUM) Logistics Main Rhenus Logistics India Non-public Restricted.

“As a part of the mou, rhenus will introduce 100 barges in a phaseed method within the nationwide waterways whereas 20 barges and 6 pushers (are) to be deployed within the first part, concentrating on the motion of multiple million tonnes of cargo Yearly by the top of 2025, “The ministry of ports, transport and waterways stated in a press release.

“Inland Waterways supply a Exceptional Alternative to Create a Grener, COST-Efficient, And Environment friendly Logistics Community,” Union Minister of Ports, Delivery and Waterways Sarbnanda Sonowed, SONOBNADA SANODA SAIDAKING, On the occasion.

To start with, rhenus will function on the Ganga, Brahmaputra, and Barak Rivers, as Nicely because the Indo-Bangladesh protocol route, transferring bulk and break Bulk (non-standardized, particular person in) North, East, and Northeast India, with Gradual Expantion to different nationwide waterways.

By Leveragging Rhenus’s Experience in European Inland Navigation, and its international fleet of over 1,100 barges, the partnership goals to brings international finest practices to India. “A mix of pushers and barges to go well with the low draft navigation might be used to move bot bulk and break bulk cargo,” The ministry stated. “

The variety of operational nationwide waters in India inexperienced inexperienced in 2014-15 to 24 by 2023-24, with a goal of 29 by 2024-25. Cargo Motion has surgged from 30 Million metric tonnes each year (mmtpa) in 2014-15 to 133 mmtpa in 2023-24, including as much as the cumulative motion of over 779 mmt up to now decade, cocording to the ministry.

Presently, 14,500 km of Navigable Waterways Span 111 Declared Nationwide Waterways, and The Sector is Play a Transformative Position within the Nation’s Multimodal Logistics Framework, the Minostry Stated.