Commerce Minister Shri Piyush Goyal releases logistics performance rankings and felicitates top logistics players at the LEAPS Awards 2025 ceremony in New Delhi.
Union Minister for Commerce and Industry Shri Piyush Goyal released the Logistics Ease Across Different States (LEADS) 2025 report and felicitated winners of the LEAPS Awards 2025 across 13 categories in New Delhi on May 13, 2026. The event was organised by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) and brought together government officials, industry associations, logistics stakeholders, startups, MSMEs and academic institutions.
LEADS 2025, the seventh edition of the annual benchmarking report, has transitioned from a three-tier to a four-tier performance classification comprising Exemplars, High Performers, Accelerators and Growth-Seekers. Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Mizoram and Delhi were ranked as Exemplars in their respective categories of coastal states, landlocked states, north-eastern states and union territories. LEAPS 2025, the fourth edition of the Logistics Excellence, Advancement and Performance Shield initiative, recognised winners across Core Logistics, MSMEs, Startups, Institutions and Special Categories, with FedEx, MSC Agency India, Safexpress, DP World Rail Logistics and Delhivery among the recipients.
Addressing the ceremony, Union Minister for Commerce and Industry stated that India achieved an all-time high export figure of USD 863 billion in the financial year ending March 31, 2026, with services exports growing at around 8.5 to 9 per cent and overall exports growing by nearly 5 per cent year-on-year despite global headwinds including high tariffs, the Ukraine conflict and the West Asia crisis. He said the government has set an aspirational export target of USD 1 trillion for the current financial year and also noted that India’s nine FTAs signed over the past three and a half years cover 38 economies, with four already operational and five more expected to come into force within 12 months, and that together with earlier agreements with Japan, Korea and ASEAN countries, these now cover more than two-thirds of global trade.
He added that trade negotiations are underway with the GCC, Canada, Eurasia, Mexico, SACU, Mercosur, Chile and the Maldives. The Minister also cited India’s production of 1.4 million STEM graduates annually, nearly 1,700 to 1,800 operational Global Capability Centres and a pipeline of 500 more as evidence of the country’s growing strategic importance to multinational companies.
Source: Press Information Bureau (PIB)
