Inefficiencies hinder Modi's hinterland plans

Mumbai

MUMBAI'S commercial seaport, which handles over half the container traffic through India's major ports, is doubling capacity as Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks to build an export powerhouse.

The expansion, due to be completed in seven years, cannot come quickly enough for Avinash Gupta, whose family business supplies steel forgings to Europe and the United States from the industrial hub of Ludhiana in northern India.