Lack of infrastructure, poor roads, excess vehicle capacity and fluctuating fuel prices are some of the major issues hampering the transport sector, not only in Assam but the entire North-East, said panellists at a discussion as part of the Transporters Meet organised by BusinessLine, in association with Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL) and Mahindra Small Commercial Vehicles, in the riverine port city of Guwahati, on Friday.
The busy Inland Waterways Transport (IWT) on the Brahmaputra makes the city one of the key logistics hubs in the region, with the truck industry providing the critical last-mile connectivity, they observed.
The event was a first-of-its-kind initiative for the transport sector in the North-East, the panellists noted.
