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Gadkari said, the government has agreed to provide maritime clusters for ancillary industrial support and design centres, as well as financial assistance to meet the challenge of lack of competitive advantage due to heavy subsidies provided by major shipbuilding countries to their shipbuilding industry. (Image by Ministry of Shipping)
Gadkari was impressed with the barrages and the fact that navigation in the inland waterways system is cost effective. The Ministry of Shipping release said that Gadkari hopes to do the same in India. <br/><br/> Gadkari is also said to have liked the mechanism of regular dredging of the river and maintenance of its freight barges through a system of locks. (Image by Ministry of Shipping) 
The release said that Gadkari examined towboats pushing barges, lashed together to form a big tow. This is felt was an efficient mode of transportation, helping move around 22,500 tons of cargo as a single unit. <br/><br/> He was told that a single 15-barge tow is equivalent to about 225 railroad cars or 870 tractor-trailer trucks If the cargo transported on the Mississippi inland waterways each year had to be moved by another mode, it would take an additional 6.3 million rail cars or 25.2 million trucks to carry the load, the officials told Gadkari. (Image by Ministry of Shipping) -
Nitin Gadkari outlined the government’s policy initiatives and his own vision to strengthen India’s infrastructure sector and offered lucrative investment opportunities in road and highways construction. (Image by Ministry of Shipping)
Gadkari is of the opinion that the barges, when built in India, will help in the movement of bulk commodities and raw materials like stones, petroleum, coal, sand and gravels used in building of highways and roads, and food grains at relatively low cost. <br/><br/> The minister also exchanged views on the land port operations with the St. Louis Port authorities. (Image by Ministry of Shipping)
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