Freight Corridor

Rlys plans concessions for truckers on dedicated freight corridors

Move aimed at capturing modal freight share from national highways

Delhi-Mumbai Expressway, freight corridor to be pillars of progress: PM

Modi brings infra in focus ahead of Rajasthan polls, opens first phase of India's longest expressway

Railways aims to boost MSME markets through DFC infrastructure project

Indian Railways has undertaken a mega-infrastructure project namely the Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC), comprising Western Dedicated Freight Corridor (WDFC- from Dadri to Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust 1506 Km) and Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor(EDFC- from Ludhiana to Sonnagar-1337 Km) covering 2843 route Km in totality.This information was given by the Minister of Railways, Communications and Electronic & Information Technology, Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha.A total route length of 1610 Km (799 Km of EDFC and 811 Km of WDFC) has been completed out of total 2843 Km till October, 2022.In this regard, a pilot project for 'JPP' has been launched on 31.03.2022, by attaching a Parcel Van in Tapti Ganga Express (19045/46) between Surat and Varanasi.Joint Parcel Product (JPP) has been launched by Indian Railways in collaboration with India Post which aims to target business-to-customer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B) markets focusing on ...

Centre looks to close Chabahar port negotiations by end of FY23

With the international framework broadly agreed on, talks pick up the pace

Indian Railways seeks quicker land acquisition for stalled projects

Zonal Railways asked to designate more works as special projects for quicker clearance

Railways ferries 124-mt freight in Nov, clocks 5% rise since last year

Officials peg FY23 freight between 1500-1550 mt

300-400 new Vande Bharat trains to be announced in upcoming Union Budget

According to a railway ministry official, there will be an announcement for provision of 300-400 new Vande Bharat trains in the Union Budget 2023-24 which will be the highest ever allocation

Railways eyes Rs 94k cr coal connecting projects as part of Energy Corridor

National transporter targets FY24 to close critical project pipeline

Indian railways far from 'carbon neutral 2030' goal; lags in clean energy

The organization had installed renewable capacity of 142 megawatts of rooftop solar and 103.4 megawatts of wind energy as of August

Tata Projects consortium served termination notice over 'intolerable' delay

Move over 'inordinate delay' in executing crucial stretch of Western DFC

What the Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation's new avatar will look like

Smaller, high-frequency routes, and possibly faster execution could be the focus

Dedicated freight corridor gives boost to shift from roads to rail: Report

A dedicated freight corridor has given a boost to the modal (freight movement) shift from road to rail even as a host of factors, including the absence of a sector regulator, impeding this shift, a report said on Friday. According to credit ratings agency CareEdge, container cargo transported through railways (rail volumes) grew by a healthy 17.63 per cent year-on-year to 74.38 million metric tonnes during the previous fiscal as compared to 12.51 per cent growth in overall container cargo volumes. The rail co-efficient also expanded by 115 bps to 26.70 per cent during FY22, mainly supported by partial connectivity of the dedicated freight corridor (DFC) with Mundra and Pipavav ports on the western coast, it said. This marks the beginning of the modal shift from roads to rail, the ratings agency added. It noted that the slated completion of the DFC project by June 2023, increased trips of cost-effective double-stack container trains and incremental volumes of cement cargo through ..

1,000 underpasses, over bridges: Rail Ministry's plan to prevent mishaps

The DFC has identified 46 crossings where the rail flyovers are to be constructed to prevent rail crossing accidents

DFCC pins hopes on new Maharashtra govt approval for stuck freight corridor

Previous government had banned earthwork for project, following an order by Pune Bench of NGT

GMR Infra to raise Rs 6,000 crore for cities around three airports

Group power company to raise Rs 3,000 cr separately

In a first, Railways takes the DFC route to transport four-wheelers

Western dedicated freight corridor to transport 25 wagons of four-wheelers for the first time

Project reports for new freight corridors to be ready by Dec: R K Jain

In a Q&A, Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India MD R. K. Jain speaks about the timeline of the projects and the larger plan to build a countrywide freight corridor network

Dedicated freight corridors to be delayed again, deadline extended by 2 yrs

DFCC has so far commissioned 1,010 kilometres (km) of the proposed 2,843 km, pertaining to stretches undertaken by the government for both the corridors

Gati Shakti may enable faster implementation of dedicated freight corridors

Detailed project reports of East-West and North-South freight corridors being reworked

Concor, Gateway Distriparks track gains as freight shifts to rail segment

The roll-out of the dedicated freight corridor should boost volumes for container train operators