Railways notifies 5% freight rate discount for all container train operators

August 6, 2020: Indian Railways has announced five percent freight rate discount for all container train operators to attract more containers to the rail mode.

The discounts started from August 4, 2020, will be valid till April 30, 2021.

"The move, however, does not satiate the private container train operators (CTOs), who had been wanting to waive off of entire haulage charges on movement of empty containers," reports BusinessLine.

Indian Railways has recently send its first-ever export container train to Bangladesh from CONCOR’s Container Freight Station (CFS) at Majerhat in Kolkata to Benapole through integrated check post (ICP) at Petrapole.

South Central Railway (SCR) of Indian Railways has recently launched India’s first-ever Cargo Express, a time-tabled weekly goods train between Hyderabad and New Delhi.