Tata NYK Shipping Pte Ltd ferries coal from the Indonesian and
Australian mines for the coast-based power plants in India. On the
return leg the bulk carriers travel to China with iron ore from India.
Yet like other Japanese business, the company too is gasping at the rapid pace at which Indian policy lag jam has choked off imports of coal and export of iron ore.
The company's throughput which had risen 37 per cent in 2012
calendar year has dropped to 4.6 per cent this year and is expected to
barely improve to 9.5 per cent in the next calendar year.
The drop is part of the larger India story which all Japanese companies are coming to reconcile themselves with. "Our plan still remains to ferry coal to India and on the return leg carry iron ore from there to China. It is not happening", said Fujimoto Kazuyoshi, manager of the Asia Group of NYK Container Line, whose subsidiary is the joint-venture with Tatas.
The coal is meant to fire the power plants as part of the ring of eight ultra mega power projects planned to be set up by 2016. Only two of these are operational and of them only one, the Tata plant at Mundra require the imported coal.
Seven & I Holdings is the largest retail chain in Japan and ranks just behind Walmart globally with sales of over $90 billion. The company with its iconic 7-Eleven format stores pockmark the entire island nation, but despite being present in 16 countries, it has no plans to enter India.
Minoru Matsumoto, senior officer at the Public Relations Center of the company said they have no plans to tap the Indian market despite the opening up of foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail by India.
Food products account for two-third of its sales at the 7-Eleven convenience stores, but that requires huge build up of a logistics chain straddling several states, still clearly impossible in the current political climate. "We aim to be the largest wherever we go," said Matsumoto.
Yet like other Japanese business, the company too is gasping at the rapid pace at which Indian policy lag jam has choked off imports of coal and export of iron ore.
The company's throughput which had risen 37 per cent in 2012
calendar year has dropped to 4.6 per cent this year and is expected to
barely improve to 9.5 per cent in the next calendar year.
The drop is part of the larger India story which all Japanese companies are coming to reconcile themselves with. "Our plan still remains to ferry coal to India and on the return leg carry iron ore from there to China. It is not happening", said Fujimoto Kazuyoshi, manager of the Asia Group of NYK Container Line, whose subsidiary is the joint-venture with Tatas.
The coal is meant to fire the power plants as part of the ring of eight ultra mega power projects planned to be set up by 2016. Only two of these are operational and of them only one, the Tata plant at Mundra require the imported coal.
Seven & I Holdings is the largest retail chain in Japan and ranks just behind Walmart globally with sales of over $90 billion. The company with its iconic 7-Eleven format stores pockmark the entire island nation, but despite being present in 16 countries, it has no plans to enter India.
Minoru Matsumoto, senior officer at the Public Relations Center of the company said they have no plans to tap the Indian market despite the opening up of foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail by India.
Food products account for two-third of its sales at the 7-Eleven convenience stores, but that requires huge build up of a logistics chain straddling several states, still clearly impossible in the current political climate. "We aim to be the largest wherever we go," said Matsumoto.
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