Freight corridor operates 391 trains in Jan 2025, achieves significant milestone: Railway MinistryIndia's Dedicated Freight Corridor achieved a milestone in January 2025, with 391 daily trains, enhancing logistics efficiency. The Eastern...
Freight corridors contribute Rs 16,000 crore to India’s GDPA study by the University of New South Wales has found that India's Dedicated Freight Corridors (DFCs) will contribute ₹16,000 crore to the...
One year of Trucks-on-Train service shows huge growth potential: DFCCILThe Trucks-on-Train service, launched on the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor in September 2023, has shown significant potential for busi...
PM Modi to inaugurate command centre of western freight corridor on TuesdayPM Modi will also inaugurate the 401-km new Khurja Junction-Sanehwal section of the Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor (EDFC) and the 224-k...
88 per cent work on two dedicated freight corridors is complete: Railways dataOut of a total length of 2,843 km of the two dedicated freight corridors, the Ministry of Railways has completed 2,513 km till October 2023...
Rs 51,000-crore Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor (EDFC) completedThe first commercial service on this route is scheduled for November 1. Its counterpart, the 1046 km long Western DFC connecting Khurja to ...
Dedicated Freight Corridor achieves milestone of running 1 lakh trainsThe first train on the DFC network was flagged off by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on December 12, 2020. Till now 55,332 trains have been o...
Nearly 56% of dedicated freight corridors completeThese freight corridors are essential to help decongest the Indian Railways network that struggles with track availability issues. Passenge...
Number of trains at freight corridors to rise next year: DFC MD"Most of dedicated freight corridor (DFC) tracks, over 90 per cent, will be operational in next one year by June 2023. This will mean that ...
10 firms show interest in railways' 'roll on-roll off' service on Western Dedicated Freight CorridorTen organisations participated in the pre-bid conference, including the Konkan Railways. The Ro-Ro service consists of the carriage of load...
Mega plans announced for Railways, substantial mark-up in budgetary allocationThe eastern and western dedicated freight corridors will be commissioned by June 2022, it was announced. The FM also announced plans for ea...
PM Modi to inaugurate 306-km stretch of WDFC on Jan 7: PMOModi will also flag off the world's first double-stack long-haul 1.5-km-long container train hauled by electric traction from New Ateli-New...
DFC delay: Railways blames contractors, law & order issues, slow land acquisition by statesWhile the original deadline for completion of these DFCs was December 2021, the Railways recently said it has been pushed back by six month...
Railway's largest current infra project to be delayed by 6 months due to COVID-19"We suffered a setback due to the coronavirus pandemic which led to issues with labour mobilisation. The new deadline is June 2022," Yadav ...
For first time, entire track laying of DFC to be done using NTC machineAn inspection of the NTC working site on the Khurja-Dadri section of the Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor was conducted by the Niti Aayog...
Dedicated freight corridor to bring down charges by 50 per centThe haulage charges on Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Ltd network will be 50 per cent lower compared to the freight tariff...
Railways sanctions implementation of high speed dedicated freight corridorsThe Eastern Freight Corridor, starts from Sahnewal near Ludhiana in Punjab and passes through Haryana, UP, Bihar, & terminates at Dankuni.