Key Discussion Points:

• Providing long-term policy stability in port development, coastal shipping promotion, and shipbuilding incentives to give investors’ confidence and encourage sustained capital deployment.
• Streamlining procurement and concessioning frameworks — standardized model concession agreements, faster tender evaluation timelines, transparent tariff setting, and robust dispute resolution mechanisms.
• Ensuring project bankability through well-structured PPP models — including realistic demand forecasting, appropriate revenue sharing, and balanced allocation of foreign exchange and volume risks.
• Improving land acquisition efficiency and expediting environmental and coastal zone clearances through digitized workflows, empowered state-level agencies, and predictable approval timelines.
• Strengthening institutional coordination across central ministries, state governments, port authorities, and private concessionaires to accelerate project execution and avoid implementation bottlenecks.

Key Discussion Points:

• Mapping the realistic outlook for India’s container demand over the next decade — which industry sectors (electronics, automobiles, pharmaceuticals, engineering goods, agro & food processing) will be the primary drivers of volume growth?
• Enhancing India’s manufacturing and export competitiveness by streamlining logistics processes, reducing compliance burden, and lowering overall supply chain cost-to-serve.
• Understanding cargo owners’ expectations: reliability of schedules, assured transit time, real-time digital visibility, and transparent service-level performance.
• Defining India’s emerging gateway and transshipment strategy — the respective roles of Vizhinjam, Vadhavan, and JNPA in capturing regional mainline and feeder flows.
• Adopting corridor-based planning to strengthen cargo movement: integration of rail-ICD clusters, MMLPs, coastal shipping, inland waterways, and first/last-mile logistics.
• Deploying policy enablers to accelerate cargo creation — leveraging PLI schemes, SEZ and customs reforms, flexible FTAs, remission/duty rebate frameworks, and simplified trade compliance processes.

Key Discussion Points:

• Which emerging technologies and digital tools are shaping the next generation of advanced planning, scheduling, and operational optimization across ports and logistics networks?
• What collaborative models and data-sharing frameworks are needed between ports, carriers, freight forwarders, and inland logistics players to achieve true end-to-end cargo visibility and traceability?
• In what ways can sustainability be meaningfully integrated across the container logistics value chain—from vessel operations and terminal processes to inland transportation and warehousing?
• How can index-linked contracting models help stabilize supply chains by balancing pricing risks, reducing volatility, and protecting stakeholders against sudden disruptions and “black swan” events?