Transport and Communications Bulletin for Asia and the by United Nations

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Characteristically, such a lot Asian international locations have depended on maritime shipping for his or her export and import exchange. notwithstanding, the continued evolution of containerization besides the profitable implementation of assorted land shipping infrastructure improvement tasks on the sub nearby and neighborhood degrees, together with the ESCAP initiated Asian street and Trans-Asian railway networks, have created new possibilities for extending the possibilities of globalization to inland destinations in either landlocked and transit nations.

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This route was specifically selected for being non-electrified. The container trains were running on this single line route on diesel traction carrying a load of 90 TEU or 45 FEU per train in single stack. This rail route of 1,233 km from the Port of Pipavav to Gurgaon was already capacity saturated in sections causing longer transit times for trains. The only solution to increasing the throughput 39 Transport and Communications Bulletin for Asia and the Pacific No. 77, 2007 and quicker evacuation of the port was found to be running of double stack container trains on this route.

PRCL has the rights, obligations and duties of the railway administration on the project section. It has rights to commercial exploitation of the project assets and can develop, design, engineer, finance, market, procure, construct and operate the project railway, market freight services, appoint supervisors and monitor activities of contractors. It also has the rights to develop additional facilities in the project area, can quote special rates in specific cases. It receives its share of the apportioned earnings from the tariff on freight traffic originating, terminating and moving on the project railway.

The present fleet of wagons for container operations is bogie low height container flat wagons. These wagons are provided with slackless draw bars, automatic twist locks and load sensing devices alongwith anti-pilferage devices and are able to run at a speed of 100 km/hour. The length of container train is limited to 45 freight cars which can carry either 90 TEU or 45 FEU. The restriction in the length of train is primarily on account of standard length of loop lines, which is 700 m in length. The capacity of the trains to carry more containers is also restricted as container flat wagons cannot carry double stack ISO containers in the electrified sections due to the overhead electric lines.

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