Inland Waterways Authority

Amazon leverages air, rail for faster festive deliveries across India

Amazon was the first e-commerce company to partner with Indian Railways in 2019

Amazon India to use India's rivers, backwaters for transporting packages

Amazon India has become the first e-commerce company in the country to work with the Inland Waterways Authority of India to facilitate cargo shipments on Indian waters

NRL, IWAI sign MoU for transportation of petroleum products to Bangladesh

Numaligarh Refinery Ltd (NRL) and Inland Waterways Authority of India on Thursday signed an MoU for the transportation of petroleum products of the Assam-based company to Bangladesh. The collaboration was made for supplying such products through IWAI's upgraded jetty at Jogighopa in Assam, an official said. NRL envisages to export 200 thousand metric tonne of products per annum to Bangladesh through Jogighopa jetty, after the commissioning of its expanded refinery and petrochemicals plant. The MoU was signed here by NRL's chief general manager (Marketing) Subrata Das and IWAI director A Selva Kumar in the presence of Union Shipping Minister Sarbananda Sonowal and Union Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas Rameshwar Teli. Speaking on the occasion, Sonowal said that collaboration between NRL and IWAI is expected to provide a boost to the Centre's 'Gati Shakti' initiative and 'Act East Policy'. Following the inauguration of the 'India-Bangladesh Friendship Pipeline (IBFPL)

Centre to set up Rs 12,000-cr inland waterway on Brahmani river in Odisha

The inland waterway will be developed on the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) model

Varanasi-Haldia inland waterway to boost exports in Uttar Pradesh

The Uttar Pradesh government is set to leverage the Varanasi-Haldia inland waterway to boost exports, including those of farm commodities and manufacturing goods

India to launch the world's longest river cruise from Varanasi to Dibrugarh

The cruise will start its journey on January 10 and reach Dibrugarh in Assam on March 1, after staying in Bangladesh for 15 days

Traffic movement at India's major ports rises 7% in FY22, says govt

The Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI), the statutory body in charge of the waterways in India under the ministry, transported a total of 105 million tonnes of cargo through national waterways

PM Narendra Modi to inaugurate slew of projects in Kochi on Sunday

Modi will dedicate to the nation Bharat Petroleum's Propylene Derivatives Petrochemical Complex at Kochi Refinery

Cochin Shipyard delivers RO-RO vessels to Inland Waterways Authority

In a statement, CSL said the 56 metre long Ro-Ro Vessel is built with in-house design for day and night operation all round the year to carry 15 TEU container trailers and 30 passengers

Indo-Bangladesh Protocol to help push cargo, cruises on inland waterways

Protocol permits inland vessels of one country to transit through specified routes of the other

India's first inland waterways shipment to start with PepsiCo on Tuesday

The project would enable commercial navigation of vessels with capacity of 1500-2,000 DWT

Inland Waterways Authority of India raises Rs 660 crore through bonds

The proceeds are intended to be used to develop the National Waterways during 2017-18

Inland Waterways Authority plans Rs 660-cr bond sale by March 2018

Cabinet will be clearing a proposal to help the money flow to Inland Waterways Authority of India