East Coast Railway Offers Service Of Time Tabled Parcel Trains For Transit Of Essential Materials

Bhubaneswar: Transportation of essential items (medical supplies, medical equipment, food items etc) is going to be very important during the lockdown period in the wake of COVID19. To mitigate the difficulties to a certain extent, Indian Railways has come forward and has decided to open its services for transportation of these essential items in parcel special trains (up to 20 VPUs).

East Coast Railway has offered interested parties that they may immediately contact ECoR Officials with their proposals if any so that time tabled runs can be introduced.

Already Western Railway has finalized a time tabled Parcel Express train to East Coast Railway from Kankariya (near Ahmedabad) to CUTTACK with Commodities such as Milk Products, Edible Oil, Spices, Groceries and Biscuits.

In addition to these, other probable Parcel Cargo trains are under consideration and can be finalised subjected to local administration permitting movement of trucks and labour handling at originating and terminating points. Talks with concerned traders are also going on in this regard.

Interested traders and businessmen, NGOs, etc., can contact the following officials of East Coast Railway in case they want to send materials to any destination.

SENIOR DIVISIONAL COMMERCIAL MANAGERS AT SAMBALPUR – SHRI SAMBEET NAYAK 8455886950. KHURDA ROAD – SHRI P K SAMAL 8455887950, WALTAIR — SHRI SUNEEL KUMAR 8978080950 and AT BHUBANESWAR — SHRI H L LUWANG DY CHIEF COMMERCIAL MANAGER 8455885955.