{"id":298184,"date":"2019-10-28T11:53:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T06:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=298184"},"modified":"2019-10-28T11:53:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T06:23:00","slug":"tech-enabled-disruptions-transforming-investment-landscape-in-road-logistics-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/tech-enabled-disruptions-transforming-investment-landscape-in-road-logistics-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech-enabled disruptions transforming investment landscape in road logistics space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The highly fragmented Indian road logistics sector is witnessing a disruption similar to that in the ICT space, with non-industry players entering the market and leveraging technology to offer specialised services and solutions, from reducing costs to limiting the role of intermediaries, which is in turn attracting investments. The sector has attracted more than $500 million (over Rs 3,500 crore) since 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Demand in India\u2019s logistics industry is mostly controlled by small and mid-sized enterprise, while on the supply side around 75% of trucks are owned by small fleet owners with less than five vehicles. The market is worth around Rs 12.80 lakh crore, with over Rs 8.50 lakh crore belonging to long-haul trucking. Over 500 logistics companies and freight brokers play in this space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The highly fragmented Indian road logistics sector is witnessing a disruption similar to that in the ICT space, with non-industry players entering the market and leveraging technology to offer specialised services and solutions, from reducing costs to limiting the role of intermediaries, which is in turn attracting investments. The sector has attracted more than $500 million (over Rs 3,500 crore) since 2014. Demand in India\u2019s logistics industry is mostly controlled by small and mid-sized enterprise, while on the supply side around 75% of trucks are owned by small fleet owners with less than five vehicles. The market is worth around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,197,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}