Mumbai:
Port Wings News Network:
Gateway Rail Freight Ltd., a subsidiary of Gateway Distriparks Limited, has undertaken operations of two double stacked trains in a python configuration on the Western DFC. These trains are dedicated services for CMA-CGM shipping line, the world’s fourth-largest container shipping company.
From the two double stacked trains, one train arrived from Mundra port and the other from Pipavav port, both carrying import containers. The trains were joined at New Kishangarh, Rajasthan (Madar Junction) for the DFC stretch of 306 km up to New Ateli, Rewari, Haryana.
The government’s record allocation of ₹1.1 trillion for the Indian Railways has given specific thrust towards the completion of Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) by June 2022 that will further add impetus to rail infrastructure and will immensely benefit ports, exporters, and importers, shipping lines and container operators and other consumers of Rail transport. The corridor will increase the transportation efficiency and reduce the cost for customers.
GatewayRail’s train was also one of the two that were recently inaugurated by Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor (Rewari – Madar section). GatewayRail is already accruing benefits from this DFC section, and will continue to benefit as the rest of the Western DFC is commissioned in phases until final completion.
GatewayRail (a subsidiary of Gateway Distriparks Ltd) is India’s leading Private Intermodal Operator which operates four rail-linked Inland Container Depots at Garhi Harsaru (Gurgaon), Faridabad, Ludhiana and Viramgam (Ahmedabad) and a Domestic Container Terminal in Navi Mumbai with an overall annual handling capacity of over 6,00,000 TEU and warehousing space of over 40,000 SQM. The company operates a fleet of 31 container trains sets and providing daily container train services from these ICD to ports terminals at Nhava Sheva, Mundra and Pipavav ports for EXIM and Domestic containers. The parent company Gateway Distriparks Ltd (GDL) operates six Container Freight Stations at Nhava Sheva (2), Chennai, Krishnapatanam, Kochi and Visakhapatnam and India’s largest cold chain network through its group company Snowman Logistics Ltd.