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Citing the ₹300 crore goods gross generated during FY 2025–26 from large railway freight terminals and sidings wrong Coimbatore, including Irugur, Pilamedu and Coimbatore North, nether Salem Division, obstruction enthusiasts person called for urgent steps for constitution of a Modern Multi Modal Logistics Park (MMLP) successful the district.
The large contributors for the gross see BPCL Siding, Irugur – ₹256.5 crore; CONCOR Private Freight Terminal, Irugur – ₹14.33 crore; Irugur Goods Revenue – ₹2.08 crore; Peelamedu and FCI Sidings – ₹1.61 crore; and Coimbatore North and FCI Siding – ₹68 lakh.
These figures intelligibly item the increasing value of Coimbatore arsenic a large logistics, freight and concern hub of Western Tamil Nadu, J. Sathish, director, Kongu Global Forum, and formerly Member, Divisional Railway Users Consultative Committee, Salem Railway Division, who had obtained these details from the Railways nether RTI Act, said.
With Coimbatore serving arsenic 1 of the astir industrialised regions successful southbound India — supported by beardown MSME, engineering, textile, pump, foundry and export sectors — the MMLP would pave mode for gathering an integrated logistics ecosystem to thrust growth, ratio and planetary competitiveness, Mr. Sathish said.
The MMLP successful Coimbatore, which could beryllium positioned arsenic the economical gateway of Western Tamil Nadu, successful Salem Division, which was the lone part successful Southern Railway without a seaport, would person arsenic its cardinal components obstruction freight terminals, instrumentality handling facilities, warehousing and acold storage, seamless roadworthy connectivity, inland instrumentality depots, and last-mile logistics infrastructure, Mr. Sathish explained, expressing certainty that specified infrastructure volition importantly trim logistics costs, amended freight efficiency, fortify exports, and pull investments,
