145;Next five years will be action-packed146;

Improvement in transportation infrastructure is going to have a huge impact on the transportation business over the next five years. The construction of high quality roads will allow us to get in trucks that can carry 100 tonnes of load. Computerisation, automatic tolling machines will ensure that goods get carried much faster. While the freight corridor will dent the transportation business, as demand increases, the road transport business would once again emerge strong. We also see the cargo aircraft business, which currently operates with just seven aircraft in the country, grow to 50 aircraft in the next three years. Coastal and inland water shipping, which is presently non-existent, will also grow double over the next few years, providing various avenues for transporting goods.

The writer is president and CEO express delivery division, Transport Corporation of India