India’s logistics sector shifts gears from asset build-out to digital integrationIndia’s transport and logistics sector is shifting from building infrastructure to focusing on digital integration, interoperability, and e...
27 Dec, 2025, 07.09 PM IST
Indian Railways cuts prices of 'Rail Neer', other packaged drinking water bottles after GST reformsIndian Railways will reduce the price of Rail Neer. The price cut is due to the Goods and Services Tax reforms. A one-liter bottle will now...
20 Sep, 2025, 05.32 PM IST
Freight tax cut to drive logisticsEarlier, this was taxed at 12% with ITC. For road haulage, renting of goods carriages with operators, where fuel is included, now attracts ...
04 Sep, 2025, 07.36 PM IST
New GSTN guidelines for transport via Indian Railways: Buyers won’t receive goods if E-Way Bill doesn’t have this detail, here’s how to do itGoods and Services Tax (GST): GSTN in an a new advisory said now freight operation information system (FOIS) of the Indian Railways has now...
27 Dec, 2024, 11.53 AM IST
Extend GST compensation period else Karnataka will become revenue deficit state: Congress MPKarnataka - which is expected to have a debt of over Rs 4 lakh crore at the end of this fiscal year - will become a revenue deficit state i...
12 Feb, 2021, 05.52 PM IST
Rail wagon makers buck the trend, seek higher GSTAmid the clamour for slashing GST rates, rail manufacturers are seeking the opposite—an increase.
29 Aug, 2019, 05.28 PM IST
NTPC, Railways ink Rs 10,000 crore deal to transport coalThe agreement entered into earlier this month has come as a boon for the cash-starved national transporter as NTPC has agreed to pay the en...
30 Oct, 2018, 08.35 AM IST
Alstom flags GST issues for inflating costsIn the last 12 months, the tendering activity has been exceptionally dynamic
11 Sep, 2018, 09.57 AM IST
Commerce Ministry for single GST rate on multimodal transport of vehiclesMultimodal transportation includes a combination of more than one mode of movement, such as rail, road or sea, for end-to-end delivery of g...
28 Jan, 2018, 12.24 PM IST
Logistics to gain most from GST; costs to dip 20 per cent: Nitin Gadkari"India's logistics sector would gain the most from the Goods and Services tax (GST) as costs would fall by almost 20 per cent," Road Transp...
26 Jul, 2017, 08.53 PM IST
GST: AC fares in trains to go up marginally from tomorrowGST on transport of goods by rail will be 5 per cent in place of service tax of 4.5 per cent levied earlier with exemption for essential go...
30 Jun, 2017, 11.16 PM IST
Expect 5.8% container volume growth in FY19: V Kalyana Rama, CMD, Container Corporation Of IndiaSeeing an increase in volumes, pendency at gateway ports a good indicator says Kalyana Rama, CMD, Container Corporation Of India
21 Jun, 2017, 12.56 PM IST
Tax bonanza turning city at 'zero mile' into India's warehouseIndia is on the cusp of a sweeping tax overhaul that could turn the city of 2.4 million people into one of the nation’s biggest logistics h...
17 May, 2017, 05.30 PM IST
ET 500: Concor all set for a high-growth journeyA GST-driven bump will open up a sizeable opportunity for Concor, which has a three-fourths share in the container train transport business.
28 Nov, 2016, 12.15 AM IST
GST will bring a great demand for hub based warehousing: P Alli Rani,Container CorpThe benefit is for the customer ultimately and also for the trader who has to generally pay at various levels all these taxes.
03 Aug, 2016, 11.30 AM IST
Bringing Indian Railways into service tax net will help organisation's financesIndian Railways (IR) is supposed to charge service tax on rail users from next month.
18 Sep, 2012, 10.01 AM IST
- Budget 2012: Logistics sector should get industry status, says TCI
The government should look at according industry status to the logistics sector which will help the transporters avail the benefits of bein...
09 Mar, 2012, 06.30 PM IST