Anish Jha, Managing Director, Kuehne+Nagel India (KN), Sri Lanka & Maldives said, “In 2025, the logistics industry showed that customer focus and collaboration remained the strongest drivers of progress. Companies strengthened agility, trust and visibility to keep supply chains steady in a changing environment. The year underlined that resilience is built through shared intent and partnerships, not forecasts. Three themes shaped how organisations navigated the year: Agility to respond, adjusting to fast changing market conditions, resilience to managing rising complexity, and trusting the basis of every customer relationship. Agility took many forms, from adapting production and inventory plans to rebalancing transport modes and reviewing sourcing strategies. The adjustments to USA tariffs were one example of how the firms needed to stay flexible, anticipate cost impacts, and ensure continuity across markets.”  

Cargo Service Center (CSC) was recognised as the Gold Sponsor at the recent India Cargo Awards 2025, reaffirming its leadership and commitment to excellence within the air cargo and logistics industry. This acknowledgment highlights the company’s ongoing efforts to drive innovation, enhance operational efficiency, and support the growth of India’s cargo ecosystem. As a valued industry partner, CSC continues to play a significant role in elevating service standards and contributing to the sector’s overall advancement.

Welspun One has been allotted 46-acre MIDC-notified land parcel in Talegaon MIDC Phase IV, Pune. The company will develop a 1.2 million sqft., Grade-A logistics park with a planned investment of `550 crore. This move marks Welspun One’s entry into one of India’s most promising logistics micro-markets and strengthen its presence in Maharashtra’s new-age warehousing corridor. This MIDC-notified land parcel is earmarked for developing a premium Grade-A first-mile logistics asset, designed to enable the seamless movement of goods from factories to fulfillment and distribution networks. Located in the Talegaon–Chakan belt, the site sits at the heart of one of India’s vital and sought-after industrial and warehousing micro-markets driven by occupier demand from warehousing and industrial users seeking proximity, scalability, and compliance-led infrastructure.

KSH Integrated Logistics launched its new 100,000 sqft Multi-Client Facility, a logistics strategic hub, in Bhiwandi, Maharashtra. This facility marks a step in the company’s aggressive growth strategy to meet the increasing demand from its rapidly expanding customer base. With this addition, KSH’s total footprint in the region now stands at 200,000 sqf., supporting a vision to further expand its capacity to 500,000 sqft., in next two years. The new facility is designed for maximum operational efficiency. Its strategic location, which is in proximity to the Samruddhi Expressway, Delhi Mumbai Expressway and JNPT Virar Expressway, provides faster delivery timelines and improved supply chain management for customers aiming to reach their end consumers quickly. The facility is equipped with modern infra, including a verified Fire NOC, and leverages KSH’s robust Warehouse Management System for seamless, tech-enabled operations — a standard implementation across all KSH MCF facilities.

Tulsidas Khimji has been honoured with the ‘Best Customs House Agent – Air’ award at the prestigious India Cargo Awards, reaffirming the company’s leadership and excellence in India’s air cargo and customs facilitation sector. The accolade recognises Tulsidas Khimji’s consistent performance in delivering efficient, compliant, and customer-centric customs clearance services for air cargo. With a strong focus on reliability, technology-driven processes, and timely documentation, the company continues to play a vital role in supporting seamless air freight operations across the country. Winning at the India Cargo Awards—often regarded as the benchmark of excellence within the logistics and cargo industry—further underscores Tulsidas Khimji’s contribution to raising service standards and strengthening India’s air cargo ecosystem.

CargoAi has marked another step forward with the rollout of its CargoMART Interline solution —its latest innovation aimed at fully digitising and automating interline cargo bookings between airlines, said Mark Drusch, Chief Officer Cargo, QR Cargo. The announcement comes as CargoAi celebrates three years of partnership with QR Cargo, a collaboration that continues to deepen as both companies push the boundaries of digital transformation in air freight. With the launch of the Interline module, QR Cargo can now streamline its digital operations giving customers faster and more efficient interline booking capabilities. CargoMART Interline enables airlines to instantly check and book interline capacity across multiple partner carriers in real time — eliminating the manual coordination typically needed across different time zones and reducing operational complexity., highlighted the strategic importance of the initiative, “Digitalisation remains a cornerstone of QR Cargo’s vision. Our continued collaboration with CargoAi and introduction of CargoMART Interline reinforces our commitment to innovation, enabling us to optimise interline partnerships and deliver a seamless and efficient digital booking experience for customers across an expanded global network,” Drusch added.

Andhra Pradesh is poised to become the biggest beneficiary of the Raipur–Visakhapatnam Economic Corridor, a major greenfield highway project costing ₹16,482 crore. The corridor will shorten the Raipur–Visakhapatnam route from 597 km to 465 km and is likely to be completed by December 2026. According to officials, the new highway will reduce travel time to Visakhapatnam Port from the current 12–15 hours to just five hours. This improvement will lower fuel use, cut transportation costs, boost movement of trucks, minerals, agricultural produce, and container cargo, thereby opening the door to substantial industrial, logistics and agricultural growth across Andhra Pradesh. For the state’s northern districts — Visakhapatnam, Anakapalle, Alluri Sitharama Raju district, and parts of Vizianagaram — the project promises enhanced connectivity to the industrial regions of Chhattisgarh and Odisha.

Delhivery completed testing of its autonomous Vertical Take-off and Landing (VTOL) drone technology at Deoria, Uttar Pradesh. Delhivery drone, carried medicines and completed a pre-programmed 12 km flight path autonomously. The mission, which would normally take up to 40 minutes by road due to infrastructure challenges, was completed in 12 minutes, highlighting the potential of aerial logistics to transform last-mile delivery in India. The showcase was held in the presence of Shashank Mani, MP from Deoria. The drone was executed by Delhivery Robotics India, a subsidiary of Delhivery, which has designed and manufactured the Logistics Drone.

Sunil Kohli, MD, Rahat Cargo said, “The ongoing efforts by the governments concerned to boost the India-Russia-China economic corridor may yield enhanced connectivity avenues such as the INSTC (International North-South Transport Corridor) and Eastern Maritime Corridor(EMC) thereby streamlining logistics with digital tracking, using local currencies of the respective countries followed by diversifying trade beyond energy namely pharmaceuticals, minerals for oil/coal. The coordinated corridor of economic understanding among the three countries may also address regulatory hurdles through focused agreements with a view to professionalise these Eurasian routes. The Indian freight forwarders may succeed in promoting their products export such as processed minerals, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, tea, and steel to Russia whereas liberalised imports from Russia may be witnessed comprising coal, oil, gas and fertilisers.”

Gautham Raju, Air Freight Specialist said, ‘Taking India-Russia economic partnership to new heights is our common priority’ said PM Modi after talks with Putin. India-Russia-China economic corridor is poised to transform EXIM trade, and freight forwarding agents who adapt quickly will reap the advantages and benefits on core sectors. Agents can offer integrated logistics solutions, including air freight, sea freight, and land transportation. Digitalisation and infrastructure upgrades will streamline logistics processes, enhancing customer satisfaction. PM Modi also said after 23rd India–Russia Bilateral Summit that India and Russia are working towards early conclusion of a free trade agreement with Eurasian Economic Union. Putin said that we are looking at increasing annual bilateral trade volume to USD 100 billion, he said. Putin said Russia is also looking at expanding cooperation in the energy sector with New Delhi, adding his country is ready for uninterrupted shipments of fuel to India. This corridor, comprising the International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC) and the Chennai-Vladivostok Maritime Corridor, reduces transportation time and costs, making Indian exports more competitive, benefiting industries like pharmaceuticals, electronics, and machinery.