LOCATION

IMPORTANCE OF
LOCATION
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• ACCESIBILITY
• AFFORDABILITY
• INVESTMENT READINESS
• COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE
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 ADVANTAGES OF LOCATION
FOR A COMPANY
•
• LOCATION OF PLANT FROM MARKET
• LOCATION OF PLANT FROM
WAREHOUSES
• LOCATION OF MACHINERY WITHIN
PLANT
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 Factors Affecting Location
Selection
• Labor costs (including wages,
unionization, productivity)
• Labor availability (including
attitudes, age, distribution, and
skills)
• Proximity to raw materials and
suppliers
• Proximity to markets
• Government fiscal policies (including
incentives, taxes, unemployment
compensation)
 Factors Affecting
Location Selection -
Continued
 Environmental regulations
 Utilities (including gas, electric,
water, and their costs)
 Site costs (including land,
expansion, parking, drainage)
 Transportation availability
(including rail, air, water, and
MUNDRA PORT AND SEZ Ltd

• Cargo handling and other value-

added port services
• Handles 30 million tones of cargo
ranging from Bulk Cargo like Coal,
wheat etc
• targets a 50 million tonne cargo by
2010.
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LOCATION ADVANTAGE

•
•
•
• LOCATION: Located in Northern coast of
gulf of Kutch
• LOGISTICAL: Port has excellent in-land
connectivity through rail track, road
net work, airport and cross country
pipelines
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 EXTERNAL CONNECTIVITY
ADVANTAGE
 RAIL:
 64 km private railway line which connects the
 port with the national network at Adipur
 ROAD:
 Easily accessible by the national highway
network (NH 8A and NH 15)
 AIR:
 Mundra Port has a private operational airstrip
that is suitable for landing mid-size jets
 PIPELINES:
 Mundra is a port of choice for crude and other
liquid cargo
 MARINE SERVICES
•
 INTRA-PORT LOCATION
ADVANTAGE
MULTIPURPOSE TERMINAL
DRY CARGO HANDLING AND STORAGE

LIQUID CARGO HANDLING AND

STORAGE
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 CONCLUSION
Location
 gives a competitive
advantage for a company over others
as well as makes the judicial use of
all its available resources to churn
out excellent results
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