APL Logistics extends double-stack train service to India

APL Logistics has run its first double-stack container train service in India. APL IndiaLinx, its rail operations arm in the country, stacked ninety 40-foot boxes two high on a train that departed Mundra Port on the west coast on June 16th bound for an inland container rail terminal at Kishangarh, near Delhi.

The double-stacked train operation for Mundra – Kishangarh followed the Indian Railways‘ recent decision to allow stacked train access along this rail corridor. The development was part of the rail authority’s bigger project to provide a freight-dedicated network of railroads with double-stack train access connecting key gateway ports and major North Indian industrial centres before end-2016. APL IndiaLinx plans to expand its stacked train service network as more rail corridors are allowed double-stack access.

Amitabha Chaudhuri, managing director of APL IndiaLinx, said that couble-stack trains are becoming an imperative in the rapidly-growing Indian market, helping to ease congestion at ports where capacity constraints exist in rail corridors.

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