Saravanan's Blog

Reproduction... It has been eight hours since we last talked – sleep eludes me and memories keep flushing down, sometimes as tears. Our day, 27th July, began at 12 noon, when we took our seats in the flight to Guhawati. Dr. Kalam was 1A and I was IC. He was wearing a dark colored “Kalam suit”, and I started off complimenting, “Nice color!” Little did I know this was going to be the last color I will see on him. Long, 2.5 hours of flying in the monsoon weather. I hate turbulence, and he had mastered over them. Whenever he would see me go cold in shaking plane, he would just pull down the window pane and saw, “Now you don’t see any fear!”. That was followed by another 2.5 hours of car drive to IIM Shillong. For these two legged trip of five hours we talked, discussed and debated. These were amongsthundreds of the long flights and longer drives we have been together over the last six years.  As each of them, this was as special too. Three incidents/discussions in particular ...

Source: http://www.portwings.in/ports/adani-group-to-take-over-lts-kattupalli-terminal/ Port Wings News Network: Adani Group, headed by Mr Gautam Adani and one of India’s leading business houses with revenue of over $10 billion, is all set to take over the Kattupalli International Container Terminal (KICT), promoted by engineering major Larsen & Toubro at Kattupalli Port in Tamil Nadu, it is reliably learnt. In what could be an early indication of possible takeover of the terminal, said to be from the first week of September this year, officials of Adani Group and KICT have jointly organized a trade meet with the prominent seafood exporters in the region in Chennai on July 24 and sought the trade’s support. Speaking to Port Wings, one of the exporters (who attended the trade meet), seeking anonymity said that they (Adani Group) were very eager to ascertain the potential of seafood trade from the region and also gave assurance to the trade that they can walk a...

Port Wings is bringing out series of articles on the major issues pertaining to the EXIM sector every week till the Tamil Nadu Government’s Global Investors Meet (GIM). This week, we analyse about the dairy segment in attracting investments. Source:  http://www.portwings.in/articlesinterviews/dairy-segment-in-tamil-nadu-presents-opportunity-for-investments/ Chennai: Port Wings News Network: The transition of the Indian milk industry from a situation of net import to that of surplus has been led by the efforts of National Dairy Development Board's Operation Flood programme under the aegis of the former Chairman of the board Dr. Kurien. Launched in 1970, Operation Flood has led to the modernization of India's dairy sector and created a strong network for procurement processing and distribution of milk by the co-operative sector. Per capita availability of milk has increased from 132 gm per day in 1950 to over 220 gm per day in 1998. The main thrust of Operat...

Source: http://www.portwings.in/articlesinterviews/with-special-focus-tamil-nadu-can-become-food-processing-capital-of-india/ Chennai: Port Wings News Network: India is the world's second largest producer of food net to China, and has the potential of being the biggest with the food and agricultural sector. The food processing industry is one of the largest industries in India-it is ranked fifth in terms of production, consumption, export and expected growth. The food industry is on a high as Indians continue to have a feast. Accounting for about 32 per cent of the country's total food market, the food processing industry is one of the largest industries in India and is ranked fifth in terms of production, consumption, export and expected growth. The total food production in India is likely to double in the next 10 years with the country's domestic food market estimated to reach US$ 258 billion by 2015. The food processing industry forms an important seg...

Port Wings is bringing out series of articles on major opportunities pertaining to the EXIM sector every week in connection with the Tamil Nadu Govt’s Global Investors Meet (GIM). This week, we analyze about the opportunities in Granites sector in attracting investments. Source: http://www.portwings.in/articlesinterviews/tap-the-opportunities-in-granite-sector-in-tamil-nadu/ Port Wings News Network: The main mineral wealth of the Tamil Nadu state is granite, limestone and lignite. The availability of different varieties of granite in different parts of the state’s quarries located in Krishnagiri, Madurai, Tirunelveli and Vellore areas, has resulted in a booming granite industry in the region. Over the years, the granite industry has grown from strength to strength and reports suggest that it contributing more than 35% of the country's exports . GRANITE: Granite is an igneous rock with at least 20% quartz in it. Granite is a kind of igneous rock and is formed from magma...

Source: http://www.portwings.in/editorial/negative-growth-rings-in-alarm-bells-for-modi-govt/ Port Wings Editorial: July 08, 2015: Few months back, OECD has downwardly revised its forecast for global economic growth for 2015 from 4% to 3.1%, which would be less than the 3.3% growth the world witnessed in 2014. Since, US economy has contracted in the first quarter, China clocked a moderate 7% growth, emerging economies slowed down and If Greece fails to reach an agreement with its creditors, Europe will feel the strain again which may further lower the forecast for 2015. In the globalised world, even a small action on the economic front even in a remote place of the globe, could send signals upto India. First, it was the RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan who spoke about the impending signs of Great Depression of 1930s few weeks ago. Though he had completely denied of saying such thing during a media interaction in Chennai on July 2, it has opened Pandora ’s Box and reactions ar...

Source: http://www.portwings.in/articlesinterviews/ocean-freight-logistics-is-a-highly-complex-task-raghav-himatsingka/ Chennai: Port Wings News Network: Ocean freight logistics is a highly complex task which requires tremendous amount of experience as well as knowledge, Mr.Raghav Himatsingka, Director, Ideal Movers Pvt Ltd, has said. In an exclusive interview to Port Wings, Mr Raghav said, “We need experience as well as knowledge to determine the most cost economical routes to transport the cargo in the least amount of time without any handling damage to the consignment.” Excerpts… Q. Tell us about the background of Ideal Movers, its growth over the years? Mr.Raghav Himatsingka : Ideal Group started in the year 1982 in Kolkata. Ideal Movers – the logistics arm of the group - was started in the year 2000 with only 10 trucks. In 15 years’ time, we have expanded into a wide range of logistics solutions with more than 40 offices across India and a global agen...