Arshiya Rail Infrastructure Ltd, a supply chain and logistics infrastructure firm, has become the first private container train operator in India to commence domestic container train operations from Cochin Port.
Cochin Port Trust and Port Customs have allowed Arshiya to use the siding within the port. The company will be operating with one rake and will be serving domestic movements from North & West India and back.
Arshiya Rail is country’s second largest PCTO with 20 freight trains in service across India; it is also planning to introuce a total of 150 trains in the coming years.
Paul Anthony, Chairman of Cochin Port Trust said:
“To provide best-in-class efficiency and services to the customers of Cochin Port, we thought it important to ensure we provide good rail connectivity and could not think of a better partner than Arshiya Rail Infrastructure, with its vision and investment into the logistics space and rail in particular and its integrated approach to logistics.”
As per the current estimate, rail market share for movement of cargo Pan-India is only 30 per cent.
