CONCOR to levy terminal access charge on private operators

CONCOR will levy terminal access charge on private train operators to offset the volume risk associated with migrating the terminals it runs on Indian Railways land to the liberalised Gati Shakti Cargo Terminal (GCT) scheme which treats all such facilities as common user facilities, Chairman and Managing Director Sanjay Swarup has said.

Since the terminals will become common user facility, CONCOR will charge terminal access charge to any operator that collects cargo from its terminals. “But our philosophy is very simple and straight. The customer should pay the same charges whether the container arrives by a CONCOR train or it arrives by private operator train. The charges paid by customers should be the same, he should not be penalised either way, that is our philosophy, and we will stick to that,” Swarup stated. The shift to the Gati Shakti Cargo Terminal scheme for running terminals built on Indian Railways land will potentially help the state-run rail hauler lower its land license fee (LLF) outgo by as much as Rs120 crore to less than Rs300 crore a year, the Company said in May this year.