 "freight loading, goods, minerals, railways, transport, workers")
Southern Railway's Chennai Division has introduced a new stream of traffic, “Time-tabled container train services” to capture the loading and unloading of goods from industries and firms to destinations across the country.
Apart from coal and coke, other major commodities such as fertilisers, gypsum and limestone have been loaded in recent times.
The time-tabled container services were introduced in the division for the first time on August 20, and have been running daily between Chennai Harbour and Whitefield (near Bengaluru). Each way trip fetches a revenue of Rs 4.3 lakh for the Railways, according to a Southern Railways press release.
The Chennai Division
