With recent investments made toward a multi-modal logistics and warehousing infrastructure, Maharashtra is poised to be an emerging Logistics hub. Due to its strategic location in occupying a huge part of peninsular India, it is the hub of trade and commerce due to its enhanced connectivity owing to the presence of two major ports- the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) and the Mumbai Port.
The primary drivers of warehousing demand in Mumbai are e-commerce and retail, export-import (EXIM), and manufacturing. The Warehousing activities are growing on account of a large consumption base and port-driven Export-Import (EXIM) cargo movement as well as by e-commerce and third-party logistics (3PL), that has been driving the warehouse business in Mumbai.
Major warehousing clusters in Maharashtra are the Bhiwandi warehouse cluster, Panvel warehouse cluster, and Navi Mumbai Airport Influence Notified Area (NAINA)