Indian Railways on Sunday, achieved a new milestone in seamless connectivity with Gujarat Ports with the First Double Stack Container train run between Mundra port in Gujarat to Concor Multi Modal Logistics park (MMLP) at Kathuwas in Rajasthan. The double stack container freight train from Mundra Port (MDCC) - Concor MMLP at new Kathuwas (CMLK) having total tonnage of 2,480 ton arrived at DFC New Palanpur (NPNU) at 07:00 am today and departed at 7:05 am.
The rake contained 178 containers with 5 destined for New Kathuwas in Rajasthan (NCR), 78 for Dhandari Kalan railway station in Ludhiana, 90 for Dadri (NCR) in Uttar Pradesh and 5 for Panitola Railway station in Dangar Chuk, Assam.
The rake from Mudra Port to to CoNCor Khatuwas was released on June 19 with 178 TEUs of CMLK, DDL, PNT and DER. Major commodities coming as imports are - Glycerine, Softwood pulp, Base paper, aluminium scrap, spare parts, electric parts, machine, compressor, spray parts, knitting Machine, polyester fabric. Origination of the major containers are France, Mexico, Italy, Japan, Germany, United Arab Emirates.
This linkage provides a much needed access to the northern hinterland of India through the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor. Recently, DFC has been working hard to add more economic linkages to the Western DFC.
After removal of Diamonds and correction of Gradient on the 353 km Madar, Palanpur section, three cement sidings had been seamlessly connected helping boost the economy of the region as well as the cement sector.
