APM Terminals Pipavav (Gujarat Pipavav Port) one of western India’s fastest growing gateway ports, has commenced a new weekly double stack rail service to the industrial center in Faridabad in north India’s Haryana state, near New Delhi. The dedicated double stack operations, which can efficiently carry two containers placed one on top of another in specially designed rail cars, will be operated in association with Gateway Rail and NYK India. The new service known as Sakura II will operate between Pipavav Port and ICD-Faridabad (Piyala)/ICD-Garhi Harsaru covering a distance of 1,015 kilometres (630 miles) exclusively for Japanese NYK Shipping Line. The existing Sakura I dedicated double stack rail service is operated by NYK exclusively for containers being imported by Maruti Suzuki India. The inaugural service was flagged off from Pipavav Port by Keld Pedersen, managing director of APM Terminals Pipavav, Yasuhiro Ishi, general manager, NYK Line along with other senior officials of APM Terminals Pipavav and GatewayRail recently.