Inland & Coastal Waterways

The cheapest, cleanest lane is the one made of water.

Saagar extends the same agentic spine up the river and along the coast — orchestrating barge terminals, ferries and short-sea shipping as one network with the deep-sea gateways they feed, so cargo shifts off congested roads and onto the most carbon-efficient mode there is.

1 barge
moves the freight of dozens of trucks — at a fraction of the fuel & CO₂ per tonne-km
18%
of India’s GDP is lost to logistics friction the inland network can relieve
$73B
Sagarmala build includes a national push on coastal & inland waterways
1 network
river, coast and deep-sea — coordinated on a single operating layer
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Why the waterway

The deep-sea quay is one node. The network is the prize.

A container that clears the berth in hours can still sit for days waiting on a barge slot, a lock window or a ferry connection. The inland and coastal legs are where avoidable cost and carbon hide — and where almost no one runs a single, agentic operating picture across modes.

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of India’s GDP is spent on logistics — much of it recoverable by shifting freight to water
World Bank / MoPSW
$0B
Sagarmala programme — with dedicated coastal-shipping and inland-waterway pillars
Govt. of India, MoPSW
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–170B annual infrastructure gap that better-coordinated assets can stretch further
AfDB / World Bank
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canonical record across barge, ferry, coast and deep-sea — not a folder of spreadsheets
Saagar-Connect
River & barge terminals

Sync the barge to the berth

Saagar-Berth’s just-in-time logic extends inland: barge calls, lock windows, draft and tide are resolved against live deep-sea gateway readiness, so a box leaves the quay onto a slot that’s genuinely waiting — not into a queue at the next bottleneck.

  • Barge-slot and lock-window scheduling tied to gateway readiness
  • Draft and tide constraints resolved automatically
  • One canonical record shared with the deep-sea terminal
  • Wraps existing river-port and lock systems — never rips them out
Ferries & coastal corridors

Punctual sailings, electrified calls

For ferries and short-sea ro-ro, Saagar coordinates fleet utilisation, berth turnaround and shore-power readiness — keeping sailings punctual while making each call cleaner, with every event captured for compliance.

  • Fleet utilisation and turnaround across coastal berths
  • Shore-power-ready calls, scheduled around availability
  • Passenger and ro-ro flow coordinated as one picture
  • Every call logged to an append-only, verifier-ready record
The modal-shift dividend

Moving a tonne by water is the cheapest carbon cut available.

Inland and coastal shipping is among the lowest-emission ways to move freight per tonne-kilometre. Coordinate it well and the win is double: less road congestion, and far less carbon — captured automatically for the rules that now price it.

Shift the mode, capture the saving

Saagar coordinates the inland and coastal legs so more freight stays on water, then Saagar-Insight turns each call into EU ETS, FuelEU Maritime and IMO CII records and MRV-aligned exports — the same agentic spine that runs the deep-sea quay, extended across the network.

EU ETS since 2024FuelEU since 2025IMO CII since 2023Shore-power readyMRV exports
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fuel burned every hour a vessel idles instead of moving — saved by tighter coordination
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network — barge, ferry, coast and deep-sea — on one self-optimising layer
One network, self-optimising

Connect the river to the quay to the coast.

Bring your barge terminals, ferries and short-sea calls onto the same agentic layer as the deep-sea gateways they feed — and watch cargo move with less road, less waiting and less carbon.