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Freight corridor to raise container traffic speed by four times
Financial Express Kochi
|February 26, 2025
After years of delay, the dedicated freight corridor (DFC) project is nearing completion.
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With December 2025 as the targeted deadline, the two corridors - east and west - will help ease freight traffic, reduce the overall logistics costs, and improve economic efficiency and productivity.
The corridors are turning out to be profit centres, helping the government find more non-debt financial resources for rapid modernisation and capacity augmentation of the country's railway systems, and attendant facilities. Praveen Kumar, managing director of Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India (DFCCIL) talks about the current status of DFC projects and the future plans, in an interview with Manu Kaushik. Excerpts:
What is the current status of dedicated freight corridors?
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