(From the left) Ramkumar Shankar, president, McCi; V. Arun Roy, Secretary of Industries of TN and Sándep Nanduri, MD, Tidco, in a session on state logistics policy, organized by McCI and Tidco, in Chennai on Tuesday (April 29, 2025) | Photo credit: Bijoy Ghosh
The Tamil Nadu government will soon publish a storage policy.
Collecting the importance and potential of storage, the government felt that the sector had to be a special approach to a separate policy, said Sandop Nanduri, managing director of Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation (Tidco). The State, in 2023, had published the logistics policy.
Addressing a session on the state logistics policy organized jointly by the Madras Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation on Tuesday, Nanduri said that the state storage policy will have focus areas. The thrust is in the storage standards that will be aligned with the recommendations of the standards of the Warehouse of the Government of India. In institutional mechanisms, policy would establish the role of state government in the promotion and investment. The approach will also rationalize regulatory requirements and approaches, he said. This is the first meeting with the interested parties in the storage policy, he added.
With the focus on Delta’s districts, politics will emphasize the identification of wise phase and the potential districts for the development and expansion of existing and future storage businesses. Politics will also focus on an approach based on basic products. This is to develop specific standards and directives of basic products for the future development of new storage groups, he said.
Multimodal Logistics Park
Nanduri said that the first phase of the Multimodal Logistics Park in Mappedu is expected to be operational by 2027. The second MMLP is emerging in Coimbatore for which the land equation is almost finished. “We are also forming a joint business with Puerto Vo Chidambaranar in Thothukudi for the project,” he said.
A recent report by Colliers India said that with approximately 2.2 million square feet of lease, engineering companies only represented approximately a quarter of industrial demand and grade A storage in the first quarter of 2025. Bengaluru.
The Integrated Logistics Strategy of Tamil Nadu -10 years -Aunciated in 2023 has estimated an investment disbursement of almost ₹ 63,000 million rupees (excluding the cost of the earth). Almost 50 interventions have been identified, including the authorization of an integrated and robust logistics infrastructure development, they have identified in the plan, he said.
The secretary of TN Industries, Arun Roy, said that the manufacturing sector of Tamil Nadu is due to the availability of talent, allowed policies and the ease of doing business. However, logistics infrastructure is a vital link. The State has three main ports, several minor ports, an extensive road network, an efficient loading network that connects industrial hearts and good storage, but it is only “quite satisfactory” and is needed much more to be done.
For example, there is congestion on the roads, the transit time tasks of some of the industrial groups to the ports are high and the congestion in the ports and airports. The infrastructure of the cold chain is missing in some cases.
There is not much land availability for storage infrastructure. “We need to take measures above all this,” he said.
Posted on April 29, 2025
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