Shipping companies are eager to play their role in supplying gas, but they’re also dependent on the nature of the gas supplies from India and the logistics of this country. Companies need enough assurance that gas is cheap enough to enable them to deliver gas to the consumers and back to the ship”.

When the traders visited the port of Mumbai recently, the entire operations seemed haphazard. The logistics for tankers and dry cargo to transit to other countries were also not in place. The logistics may come into play soon after the implementation of the policies and the setting up of pipelines, but these companies are yet to put these plans in action.