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In a bid to bolster its freight operations and heighten logistics partnerships, the Visakhapatnam Division of the South Coast Railway (SCoR) held its archetypal Business Development Unit (BDU) gathering astatine the Divisional Office successful Visakhapatnam.
Addressing the stakeholders successful the caller interior meeting, Divisional Railway Manager (DRM) Lalit Bohra announced, “We person acceptable an ambitious freight loading people of 55 cardinal tonnes (MT) for the existent fiscal year”.
Focus connected efficiency
During the discussions, representatives addressed operational hurdles, including rake availability, placement efficiency, and transit times. Railway officials assured stakeholders of punctual resolutions to these concerns to guarantee smoother logistics.
Principal Chief Operations Manager (PCOM) Vineet Kumar urged freight partners to leverage assorted railway inducement schemes designed to make further traffic.
“We are committed to a customer-centric attack to freight operations,” Mr. Kumar said, highlighting emphasising that adjacent coordination betwixt the railway medication and its concern partners is captious to achieving the targets.
Shift to obstruction encouraged
Principal Chief Commercial Manager (PCCM) K. Sambasiva Rao encouraged customers to place caller imaginable postulation streams and actively beforehand a modal displacement – moving freight from roadworthy to rail. He besides reiterated the necessity of strict adherence to information protocols during loading and unloading operations to forestall harm to rolling banal and guarantee harmless handling practices.
Speaking to The Hindu, a elder SCoR official, who doesn't privation to beryllium quoted, said that the recently formed Visakhapatnam Division’s 55MT fig differs importantly from the show of the erstwhile Waltair Division owed to territorial restructuring.
The erstwhile Waltair Division was a vast, mineral-rich portion that consistently achieved higher volumes (up to 78 MT) by covering extended networks, including inland mining corridors.
Following the bifurcation to make the caller Rayagada Division, the Visakhapatnam Division’s jurisdiction is present truncated to astir 463 km. Consequently, the 55 MT people reflects a much concentrated, port-and-industry-focused mandate, serving large stakeholders similar RINL, HPCL, and section ports.
While the operational scope has narrowed, the part aims to leverage its strategical presumption wrong the caller SCoR portion to heighten logistical efficiency, beforehand modal shifts from roadworthy to rail, and optimise customer-centric freight operations successful the region, helium concluded.
