First ‘Python’ container train service on DFC to be flagged off on Monday
January 31, 2021
‘Python train’ service clubs two double-stack container trains, each carrying 180 containers, and pulled by three locomotives.
Gateway Rail Freight Ltd will flag off the first so-called ‘Python’ container train service on a recently opened section of Western dedicated freight corridor on Monday carrying 360 containers of French shipping Line CMA CGM S A.
‘Python train’ service clubs two double-stack container trains, each carrying 180 containers, and pulled by three locomotives.
Sachin Bhanushali, chief executive officer and whole-time director, Gateway Rail Freight Ltd, told BusinessLine that two double-stack container trains arriving from Mundra port and Pipavav port carrying import containers of CMA CGM will be put together at New Kishangarh (Madar Jn) in Rajasthan and hauled over 306 km to New Ateli (Rewari in Haryana).