India's manufacturing export growth has been most visible in electronics assembly (driven partly by government production-linked incentive schemes attracting smartphone and component assembly) and in textiles and apparel, where India has long had an established base that has grown further as buyers diversify beyond China.
For most other product categories — industrial machinery, specific electronics components, a wide range of consumer goods — India is not yet a comparable substitute for China's supplier depth and sub-component ecosystem, which is why most buyers diversifying into India are doing so for specific product lines rather than relocating their full China sourcing base.
Logistics-wise, India is already a well-served lane from China (see our India and UAE routing guide), so the growth here is less about new shipping infrastructure and more about buyers managing two supplier relationships and two origin-side logistics processes instead of one — which is where a lot of the practical complexity in a diversification strategy actually sits.
For an importer adding India alongside existing China sourcing, the logistics question is usually whether to run two entirely separate supply chains or look for consolidation opportunities where cargo from both origins can be coordinated toward the same destination — worth discussing before volume scales rather than after.