Chennai: Chennai division of Southern Railway, in association with Concor India Ltd, has introduced container train services from Inland Container Depot (ICD), Tondiarpet, Chennai to JNPT (Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust), Navi Mumbai.
Ganesh, Divisional Railway Manager, Chennai flagged off the first rake of the container service from ICD, Tondiarpet, recently. Speaking on the occasion, he stated, “Logistics needs a dynamic and everchanging calling for cost effective solutions to remain globally competitive. Indian Railways, realising the EXIM trade demand for container trains, geared up to jointly operate regular container train services in coordination with Concor from ICD Tondiarpet, Chennai to Nhava Sheva, in Maharashtra”.
This is a high-speed weekly service covering a total distance of 1400 kms in 3 days thus enabling seamless flow of container traffic through the coastal areas of South-West, a Railway statement said.
The weekly container train services operated presently would be scaled up to bi-weekly shortly, it added.