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 financial system to tackle China and the U.S., Mr. Gadkari stated. China’s logistics cost was about 8% and that of the U.S. 12%.
To cut back the cost of logistics, Mr. Gadkari stated, 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 essentially the most economical mode of transport.
Speaking after just about laying basis for 27 street tasks and inaugurating two different tasks costing about ₹5,235 crore in Andhra Pradesh, Mr. Gadkari stated water, energy, transportation and communications have been essential for the event of any nation, and a obtrusive 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 prime precedence to constructing highways that not solely present sooner technique of transportation however have been additionally protected.
Also, he burdened the significance of setting up sea ports, making due point out of the truth that other than the main port in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh had a string of ports arising alongside its 1,000-km-long coast with the help of Centre in tune with the precedence hooked up by it to growing multi modal logistics hubs.
Mr. Gadkari stated 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 autos.
Even mixing hydrogen with biofuels was being experimented, and that the day when all these turned a actuality was not far-off. Also, airplanes would sooner than later begin flying with ethanol as a gasoline.
Apart from the above street tasks, the Union Minister sanctioned a greenfield freeway between Hyderabad and Vijayawada, and widening the prevailing 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 stated the variety of street accidents was fairly excessive in A.P. as indicated by a security audit completed by the Ministry on 100 highways, and advised Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu and Deputy Chief Minister Ok. Pawan Kalyan to duly concentrate on lowering them by planning on the district degree.
