Is India a Legitimate Option for Global Factory Production?

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Roughly one of every four shipping containers passing through India is loaded or unloaded at the Jawaharlal Nehru Port on the west coast of India, on the docks jutting into the Arabian Sea just south of Mumbai. The flow of containers has roughly tripled over the past two decades, reaching the equivalent of 6.4 million 20-foot boxes last year.

Yet by the standards of the world’s largest ports — many of them in China — it remains a small operation.

Find out how India is now pursuing an aggressive campaign to catch up, readying plans for new ports while expanding existing docks.