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Indian Railways' freight loading for the month of May 2021 is 92.29 MT which is 10 percent more than May 2019 (83.84 MT) and 43 percent more than May 2020 (64.61 MT) for the same period.

Railways registers 10% freight growth to 203 million tonnes in FY21

29 May 2021 12:18 PM IST
May 29, 2021: Indian Railways has witnessed a double-digit freight traffic growth of 10 percent to 203.88 million tonnes (MT) in the financial year...
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To fulfil the requirements of medical oxygen in Uttar Pradesh, for the movement of the train, a green corridor was created between Lucknow to Varanasi.

Oxygen Expresses of Railways deliver 150 tonnes of oxygen in 24 hours

24 April 2021 9:15 PM IST
April 24, 2021: Oxygen Expresses of Indian Railways transported Liquid Medical Oxygen (LMO) tankers with over 150 tonnes of oxygen across the country...
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This new rail service runs from the Garhi Harsaru Inland Container Depot (ICD) in Gurugram to APM Terminals Pipavav Port for exports and returns with import cargo.

Maersk launches Gurugram-Pipavav dedicated automotive rail service

20 April 2021 3:42 PM IST
April 20, 2021: In response to the needs of the automotive sector, Maersk India has launched the first Automotive Express whose first run was...
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The train departed from ICD Gurugram (Garhi Harsaru) to Pipavav Port and will provide assured connection to export containers for the %u201CTIP and PS3%u201D service (ONE Line). (Photo: APM Terminals Pipavav)

GatewayRail, ONE flag off first Gurugram-Pipavav export container train 

13 April 2021 10:52 AM IST
April 13, 2021: GatewayRail Freight (a subsidiary of Gateway Distriparks ) and Ocean Network Express (ONE) on Monday flagged off their first...
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The fully loaded 90-TEU train was flagged off from Mundra port on April 2 and was received at ICD Sanand on April 3.

CMA CGM, Thar Dry Port launch weekly train between Mundra, ICD Sanand

6 April 2021 11:00 AM IST
April 6, 2021: The CMA CGM Group and Hasti Petro Chemical & Shipping launched a weekly block train service with a capacity of 90 Twenty-foot...
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The plan is to create capacity ahead of demand, which in turn would cater to future growth in demand right up to 2050 and also increase the modal share of Railways to 45 percent in freight traffic.

Railways plans to increase freight traffic share with national rail plan

24 March 2021 5:48 PM IST
March 24, 2021:  Indian Railways have prepared a National Rail Plan (NRP) for India – 2030 to create a ‘future ready’ railway system by 2030.
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The fully loaded 90-TEU train was flagged off from Mundra port on February 27, 2021

DP World, CMA CGM, launch block train between Mundra port, Panipat ICD

5 March 2021 4:33 PM IST
March 5, 2021: Global logistics companies DP World and CMA CGM jointly received their maiden block train from Mundra, Gujarat to DP World PFT (ICD)...
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The dwarf container provides 67 percent increase in volume when double-stacked and can carry a weight of 71 tonnes, against 40 tonnes by an ISO container.

Railways runs double-stacked dwarf container train Mehsana to JNPT

5 March 2021 1:48 PM IST
March 5, 2021: Indian Railways undertook a successful trial run of a double-stacked dwarf container train from Mehsana (Gujarat) to JN Port on March...
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The train departed from Jodhpur (ICD Basni) with export containers for various countries and reached Pipavav Port within a day

Rajasthan Small Industries Corporation flags off first export container train to Pipavav

17 Feb 2021 12:28 PM IST
February 17, 2021: The Rajasthan Small Industries Corporation (RAJSICO) flagged off the first container train from Jodhpur (ICD Basni) to APM...
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The two double-stack ship to rail dedicated trains, one leaving from Mundra and the other from Pipavav, were clubbed at New Kishangarh Junction for the onward journey on the WDFC to New Ateli Junction and were split from there for GatewayRail%u2019s Inland Container Depot %u2013 Gurugram (Garhi Harsaru).

CMA CGM launches train service on Western Dedicated Freight Corridor

3 Feb 2021 5:36 PM IST
February 3, 2021: The CMA CGM Group launched CMA CGM – GatewayRail PYTHON Train Service on February 1, 2021, on Western Dedicated Freight Corridor...
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The FICCI-CRISIL knowledge paper- Indian Railways 2.0: Re-claiming Pole Position in Freight Transport, was released at the inaugural session of the conclave by the minister.

Freight trains running at twice the speed from last year: Piyush Goyal 

29 Jan 2021 4:51 PM IST
January 29, 2021: Piyush Goyal, minister of railways, commerce & industry and consumer affairs, food and public distribution, while addressing the...
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This scheduled running of trains will help the trade in ensuring the timely connection of Exim cargo containers

Railways starts 6 time-tabled container train services to and fro JNPT 

25 Jan 2021 12:13 PM IST
January 25, 2021: In order to ensure the timely connection of EXIM cargo containers, the Indian Railways has commenced six time-tabled container train...
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