Dedicated freight corridor to bring down charges by 50%, likely to be operational by next year; DFCCIL to run 120 trains daily
4 years, 10 months ago

Dedicated freight corridor to bring down charges by 50%, likely to be operational by next year; DFCCIL to run 120 trains daily

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The corporation is in talks with the Ministry of Railways that some part of lower freight charges should be passed on to the customers, he said. Prayagraj/New Delhi: Dedicated freight corridor is expected to bring down the freight charges by 50 percent when it will become operational in 2021, a top DFCCIL official has said. The dedicated freight corridor project is part of the Golden Quadrilateral connecting New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata. The haulage charges on Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Ltd network will be 50 percent lower compared to the freight tariff in the Indian Railways, DFCCIL MD Anurag Sachan told media during a two-day construction site visit of Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor. The corporation, a public sector undertaking under the Ministry of Railways, is currently engaged in constructing the EDFC and the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor.

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