The Waltair Railway division
of the East Coast Railway Zone flagged off its first refrigerator container
rake, laden with 43 containers with a load of 1,080 tonnes of frozen shrimp to
Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority in Mumbai. The
inaugural export-laden refrigerator container rake (reefer) departed from the
Container Corporation of India’s (Concor) multi-modal logistics park,
Visakhapatnam late on Sunday 11 August with Hapag-Lloyd containers.
It is expected to reach
Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust in Mumbai in 36 hours for onward shipment of the
consignment through a shipping liner to its export destination.
“The inaugural rake,
consisting of wagons equipped with power packs, carried a substantial 1,080
tonnes of frozen shrimps. This helps in
generating additional revenue with new traffic,” the Waltair Division said.