Development of rail-side warehouses
With
a view to provide seamless door to door transportation, IR and Central Warehousing
Corporation (CWC) initiated a pilot project at Whitefield Satellite Goods
Terminal at Bangalore.
Under
this project, CWC built a state of the art go down with a capacity of 15000 tonnes,
along the railway track in a goods yard. It also provides ancillary facilities in
the integrated goods shed complex.
A
road has also been provided on the other side of the track for unloading of consignment
from the wagon directly into the trucks.
The
unloading of goods is the responsibility of the CWC who are also providing facilities
for delivery of goods at the doorstep of the consignees. The value addition in
freight services has resulted in additional traffic to Railways.
Encouraged
by the customers’ response to the facilities at the Whitefield terminal, IR has
entered into a MOU with CWC as its strategic partner for the development of
similar rail-side warehouse complexes at many other locations in the country. The
facility has already become functional at some locations.
The
above concept is also being launched through PPP (Public Private Partnership) model.
Under the scheme, private entrepreneurs will be encouraged to develop rail-side
warehousing complex / logistic park / ICDs (Inland Container Depot)/Agri-chains
with modern loading and unloading and customer facilities on Railway land on a
revenue sharing basis.
This
will facilitate a single window service in providing value added service to the
customer in the form of distribution, handling warehousing and road-bridging.
It will also aggregate piece-meal (wagon-load) traffic to train load traffic
and help IR in improving its market share.
