New Delhi : First meeting - IFCCI Logistics and Maritime Committee

The first meeting of the IFCCI Logistics and Maritime Committee, held on 11th April 2018at the IFCCI office in New Delhi. About 10 company representatives attended the meeting which was presided by the Chairman, Mr Mittu Chandilya, CEO of Adani Logistics and Mr Yann Wickers, Regional Manager, South Asia Cluser, Bolloré.

The meeting started with a brief introduction of the members followed by an open discussion of the issues that should be taken up by the committee as a part of the 2018 agenda. Some of the key industry issues are mentioned below:

Knowledge sharing

1. Transparency in link chain
2. Resistance barrier
3. MMTG Act

Taxation and Impact of GST

1. Undefined taxes
2. Double taxation in case of bundling of services
3. Issue in input credit for import freight-5%

Some best practices and information sharing will also be done within the committee, the topic is the following:

Technology in Logistics

1. Reverse logistics
2. Traditional method of collecting DO
3. IOT
4. Port community system
5. Logistics startups-data collection, evaluation and pricing