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Indian Railways expects hike in budgetary support

Indian Railways expects hike in budgetary support

The Indian Railways seeks increase in budgetary support for 2013-14 to Rs 38,000 crore from Rs 24,000 crore in the current financial year because of rise in diesel cost and a large number of pending projects.During the 12th Five Year Plan (2012-17), Railways plans to invest Rs 5 trillion in capacity addition.

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Infrascape 2013 | Policies should be in a compehensive manner

Infrascape 2013 | Policies should be in a compehensive manner

If you look at the container segment, currently there are only 2-3 things that are permitted to private players. One is the container train operators license which has been operational. On container train operators license, few things that went right at least for first half of the year, a lot of new terminal lands of the container terminal operators were coming up and some of them have got operational as well like Khurchar and for Russia.

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Rlys to rope in contractor for LNG locomotive project

Rlys to rope in contractor for LNG locomotive project

In an attempt to reduce the operating cost of locomotives, Indian Railways plans to set up a locomotive prototype equipped with a single gas turbine operating on LNG. For this purpose, the Research Design and Standards Organisation (RDSO), which is the research arm of Indian Railways, sought application from interested contractors who could develop such a locomotive

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Haulage charges set to rise for container firms

Haulage charges set to rise for container firms

Reports indicate that 77 million tonne of goods in the form of containers is tra­nsp­orted through rail route every year. Haulage charge is something that container train operators pay Indian Railways for using the tracks, locomotives and signalling
infrastructure.

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Cabinet clears models for rail link projects in ports

Cabinet clears models for rail link projects in ports

Union cabinet has cleared the five models proposed by Indian Railways for setting up rail infrastructure in ports set up through private investment in the country. The five models include non-Government Railway, joint venture with equity participation by Railways, capacity augmentation through funding by customers, BOT and BOT (a

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Need for an orchestrator

Need for an orchestrator

Shashi Kiran Shetty says technology has come in handy in the absence of a workable policy framework. Logistics links shipping, finance, commerce and trade, transportation, aviation and railways