Union Minister of Road Transport & Highways Nitin Gadkari on Saturday (August 2, 2025) expressed confidence that India’s cost of logistics would come down to less than 10% by the top of December.
The lesser the logistics cost, the extra aggressive would be the Indian economic system to tackle China and the U.S., Mr. Gadkari mentioned. China’s logistics cost was about 8% and that of the U.S. 12%.
To scale back the cost of logistics, Mr. Gadkari mentioned, the required transition from fossil fuels to electrical mobility and biofuels was being made at a brisk tempo, whereas growing the pan- India freeway community, and sea ports, given the truth that water was probably the most economical mode of transport.
Speaking after just about laying basis for 27 street initiatives and inaugurating two different initiatives costing about ₹5,235 crore in Andhra Pradesh, Mr. Gadkari mentioned water, energy, transportation and communications had been essential for the event of any nation, and a evident instance was the U.S., the explanation for whose prosperity was undeniably its superior roads.
Keeping this in view, the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways gave high precedence to constructing highways that not solely present sooner technique of transportation however had been additionally protected.
Also, he pressured the significance of establishing sea ports, making due point out of the truth that other than the most important port in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh had a string of ports developing alongside its 1,000-km-long coast with the help of Centre in tune with the precedence connected by it to growing multi modal logistics hubs.
Mr. Gadkari mentioned the transport sector was in for a big transition from the utilization of typical fuels to extra of mixing them with ethanol and isobutanol throughout the spectrum of automobiles.
Even mixing hydrogen with biofuels was being experimented, and that the day when all these turned a actuality was not distant. Also, airplanes would sooner than later begin flying with ethanol as a gasoline.
Apart from the above street initiatives, the Union Minister sanctioned a greenfield freeway between Hyderabad and Vijayawada, and widening the present one to six lanes, widening of Vijayawada to Machilipatnam freeway to six lanes, and four-laning of Guntur-Vinukonda freeway, Guntur-Nizampatnam, Akiveedu-Digamarru, Pedana-Lakshmipuram, and Muddanur-Kadapa highways.
Mr. Gadkari mentioned the variety of street accidents was fairly excessive in A.P. as indicated by a security audit achieved by the Ministry on 100 highways, and advised Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu and Deputy Chief Minister Ok. Pawan Kalyan to duly deal with lowering them by planning on the district stage.
