TIME TABLED CONTAINER DETAILS : INDIAN RAILWAY

FIRST TIME TABLED CONTAINER LAUNCHED : INDIAN RAILWAY

Indian Railway Minster Suresh Prabhu announced on 15th June,2016 the first Time Tabled container train services from Domestic container Terminal (Okhla) Delhi and run to the ICD, Whitefield in Bengaluru. This tabled container train will reduce turnaround time significantly and offer assured transit time while being environment friendly.

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Up to now freight service is being run without any time table. Once the time table is prepared, freight trains are expected to reach their destinations within a specified time helping the market in knowing delivery schedules.

Following the budget announcement, discussions were held with Container Train Operators for submitting proposals for introduction of time tabled container trains with the objective of attracting incremental volumes of container traffic to rail mode. Accordingly, two pairs of time tabled container trains have been proposed by CONCOR to start with, for running in the domestic sector between Delhi and Bangalore and Delhi and Chennai. 

Regular Weekly time tabled trains, one in each direction, will be run between these O-D pairs with transit times of 70 hrs. Details are following.

Time Tabled Container

A wide range of domestic piecemeal traffic is targeted for movement between these two O-D pairs, notable among which are steel tubes, food grains, ceramic tiles, polished granite slabs, rubber latex, plywood boards, alloys, electronic goods, chemicals,cars and automobile spares.

CONCOR estimates the volumes of containerized traffic in this sector to improve by 25-30% with the introduction of assured transit times which would be improving by 45% from present levels. Apart from price advantage and assured transit times of 70 Hrs in the above two O-D streams, rail transportation is going to be hugely advantageous being environment friendly.

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