Maruti Suzuki looking at transporting more vehicles via railways to cut down costs and reduce emissionsMaruti Suzuki plans to increase railway transportation to cut costs and emissions. It has invested Rs 1081 crore to commission in-plant rai...
12 Mar, 2024, 07.14 PM IST
Rahul Bharti on how Maruti Suzuki is promoting sustainable practicesIndia's first automobile in-plant railway siding project in Gujarat's Hansalpur aims to reduce truck trips, fuel consumption, and carbon em...
12 Mar, 2024, 03.03 PM IST
Northern Railways helps Maruti export Jimny cars to African countriesAccording to the statement, Sukhvinder Singh, Divisional Railway Manager, flagged off the first freight train with 98 cars on Tuesday from ...
23 Jan, 2024, 10.46 PM IST
Railways helping automakers cut transportation cost, carbon footprintApart from a reduction in overall logistics costs, using railway rakes offers the convenience of efficiently transporting multiple batches ...
06 May, 2023, 08.37 PM IST
NF Railway clocks 9 pc jump in freight unloading in FY'24During January, 705 rakes of freight carrying trains were unloaded in Assam, followed by 116 rakes in Tripura, 22 rakes in Nagaland, 8 rake...
05 Feb, 2023, 12.28 PM IST
Maruti Suzuki plans to build specialized railway sidings in Haryana and GujaratLast year, the firm moved over 3.2 lakh autos through rail wagons, the most in a calendar year since 2013, when the company obtained the Au...
18 Jan, 2023, 04.13 PM IST
NF Railway clocks 4pc jump in freight unloadingMoreover, 224 freight rakes in West Bengal and 163 rakes in Bihar were also unloaded during the month within the jurisdiction of NF Railway...
03 Nov, 2022, 09.17 PM IST
Maruti Suzuki dispatches record 2.33 lakh units through Railways in FY22Cumulatively, the auto major has transported close to 11 lakh vehicles through Indian Railways in the last eight years, helping avoid over ...
12 Jun, 2022, 11.30 AM IST
Maruti, others use Railways to transport vehicles; move helps companies save on costs, reduce emissionAs much as 16% of all passenger vehicles produced in the local market were transported via railways in the last financial year, a four-fold...
01 Jun, 2022, 10.54 AM IST
Surge in demand for rail travel: Out of 736 special trains, 327 have waitlisted passengers"We have been saying that we will introduce trains wherever necessary, but they will be only reserved trains and will follow all coronaviru...
02 Nov, 2020, 07.21 PM IST
Railways boosts vehicles loading to raise modal freight shareIndian Railways has seen a significant increase in automobile loading over the last few months after it started working on opening new aven...
13 Sep, 2020, 11.40 PM IST
Maruti transports over 6.7 lakh cars through Indian Railways in 6 yearsThe first dispatch of the company's vehicles by double-decker flexi-deck rakes took place in March 2014. The increased focus on using railw...
08 Jul, 2020, 12.15 PM IST
Parliamentary panel asks Indian Railways to speed up station redevelopment projectsThe committee asked railways to make efforts to rope in more private operators to run the container trains so that there is further increas...
03 Apr, 2017, 11.35 AM IST
Approvals given to PPP proposals: MoS RailwaysRailways has received 10 proposals under port connectivity plans out of which 'in principle' clearance has been granted for nine, Sinha sai...
11 Jul, 2014, 05.10 PM IST
Maruti Suzuki, Indian Railways launch higher-capacity rakesMSIL today started transporting vehicles to south India using a new rake developed in association with the Indian Railways that is faster a...
05 Mar, 2014, 08.25 PM IST
Few takers for railways' auto freight scheme, only Maruti Suzuki places order for 3 rakesMaruti Suzuki, the railways' biggest automotive client, is the only automaker to have placed orders for rakes under the scheme.
31 Jul, 2013, 04.00 AM IST
- New automobile freight policy to attract more traffic
With an aim of increasing its share in transportation of automobiles, Railways has formulated a new freight policy replacing its earlier on...
06 Mar, 2013, 09.56 PM IST