In this issue

The Cover Story focuses on Project Finance. This section provides an insight into low domestic credit ratings on liabilities of infrastructure companies – mirroring the high risk perceptions of the infrastructure sector, from Feedback Infrastructure Services. Sectors covered – Roads, Power, Urban Infrastructure. Feature section discusses the Airport infrastructure of the country. Analysis from KPMG which discusses largely on the fact that India will need more airports, increased capacity at existing ones and supporting infrastructure, finance and human resources. The section is supported with interviews of VP Agrawal, Chairman, AAI; Parmit Chadha, CEO, Strategy and Corporate Development, GMR Infrastructure. The Focus section is on Logistics, which discusses issues on high logistics cost in the country. The section has input from Shantanu Bhadkamkar, Chairman, FFFAI; Manish Saigal of KPMG, Thomas Tieber, CEO—South Asia, DHL Global Forwarding; and Vishal Sharma, CEO, Gateway Rail Freight Perspectives from MP Pinto, former Secretary, Ministry of Shipping; Sudhir Hoshing, CEO – Roads, RInfra; and S Nandakumar, Senior Director, India Ratings. In Banker’s Talk section we covered M Bhagavantha Rao, Managing Director, State Bank of Hyderabad. Also, a lot more…

Infrastructure Today Magazine Description:

Since 2003, our monthly magazine INFRASTRUCTURE TODAY (IT) has grown to a stature of leadership, and it is the most read magazine in India on the infrastructure sectors. IT partners in the nation's building process by offering valuable information, insights and analyses. Our current reader profile includes policymakers and public office bearers, town planners, investors, contractors, developers, consultants, utility providers, engineers, banks and financial institutions, educators and researchers, and decision makers in other organisations that provide products or services to the infrastructure sectors. The magazine covers physical infrastructure and related construction activities in Power, Oil & Gas, Roads, Railways, Ports, Airports, Water, Telecom and Urban Infrastructure. Each issue provides usable value for the reader: from business environment and financing options to models of contracts and industrial land creation. You will always find in IT top people and organisations sectors, through independent contributions, incisive interviews. The top institutional analysts contribute to IT as well. The magazine is present in high-power seminars and conferences, is referred to by business leaders, and displayed on many a corporate boardroom coffee table.