Multi Modal Logistics Park in Silchar: CBRE South Asia has been appointed as the advisor

Silchar had been included in the list of cities where Government of India is setting up Multi Modal Logistics Park (MMLP).

Earlier Government of India had declared a list of 35 cities for the MMLP project, and Assam’s Jogighopa was the first place where new MMLP project was inaugurated. GOI is constructing these MMLPs under Bharatmala Pariyojana Programme.

In its latest extension of the project, Silchar is being chosen as a site for MMLP along with four other cities like Mumbai, Chennai, Coimbatore and Hyderabad.

CBRE South Asia has been appointed as the advisor to the development of MMLP across these five cities.

CBRE Group, Inc. is an American commercial real estate services and investment firm. The abbreviation CBRE stands for Coldwell Banker Richard Ellis. It is the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm. CBRE South Asia is now appointed as an advisory to National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) and National Highways Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (NHIDCL) in building up the MMLP in Silchar and other cities.

In July, 2021, the ministry of Road Transport and Highways had informed that they directed NHIDCL for a detailed project report on MMLP in Cachar in 45.3 Acres of land. NHIDCL had engaged Tata Consulting Engineering and CBRE South Asia for the task.

Multi-Modal Logistics Parks (MMLPs) is an initiative of the Government of India, steered by National Highways Logistics Management Limited under Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) and the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), to develop and improve country’s freight logistics sector by lowering overall freight costs and time, cutting warehousing costs, reducing vehicular pollution and congestion, improving the tracking and traceability of consignments through infrastructural, procedural, and information technology interventions.

“Keeping up with India’s rapid economic growth is the expansion of the country’s logistics sector. Our expertise and market espionage has embodied us to provide advice to the government of India on the development of Multi-modal Logistics Parks. The aim is to advace connectivity in the country to boost the national economy and especially exports,” Anshuman Magazine, the Chairman & CEO of CBRE India said.

“We are also assessing pre-feasibility for the development across a tranche of additional locations identified by MoRTH,” said Preetham Mehra, the Senior Executive of CBRE India.

MMLP can reduce the logistics cost by effective margins and it is functional in many developed countries, also this is also going to create large number of employment opportunities, believes the government.

With the MMLP project, Silchar is going to have Warehouse, Railway siding, Cold Storage, Custom Clearance house, Yard Facility, Workshops, Petrol pumps, truck parking, administrative buildings, boarding lodging, eating joints and water treatment plants. But surface connectivity and communication of Cachar and Barak Valley along with Tripura and Mizoram is extremely vulnerable to drastic weather conditions. Flooding, water logging landslides often isolates the entire geographical area from rest of the India. the work of Mahasadak is yet to be completed, at such juncture the plan of MMLP seems like a mirage.