Cargill plans a pipeline to transport imported crude edible oil

Although the pipeline will be laid in the second phase, this will be the first of its kind project to transport edible oil via a pipeline

Cargill India is restructuring its network to transport crude edible oil from Mumbai’s Jawaharlal Nehru Port (JNPT) to its processing plant at Kurkumbh village in Maharashtra's Daund area.

The first phase of the project covers transporting imported unrefined sunflower oil from JNPT to an inland tank terminal, set up near its processing facility, via rail. The project also entails the construction of storage tanks at a site 15 km away from the plant, and the shifting of the railway line to this site to facilitate the train movement from the port to this location. The distance between the site and