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Gateway Rail Freight Ltd has started the construction of its 5th rail-linked container terminal at Viramgam near Ahmedabad after receiving all regulatory permissions from the State government and Western Railway, a release said.
Prem Kishan Gupta, CMD, Gateway-Rail said, “This will be our offering for the international trade of Gujarat, particularly the new industrial belt of Ahmedabad-Sanand-Mehsana-Becharaji area. We plan to leverage the Gurgaon and Viramgam terminals as twin rail hubs to consolidate volumes of all the three ports and our four terminals.”
The terminal at Viramgam is being built on 35 acres of land at a cost of about ₹100 crore and will have two railway sidings for handling container trains. It will be ready in a year and will operate as a rail hub and ICD at Viramgam.
GRF is a leading inter-modal logistics solutions company, which operates train services to three main ports on the west coast – Nhava Sheva, Mundra and Pipavav. It has inland container depots (ICD) in Gurgaon and Faridabad in NCR and in Ludhiana in Punjab. It also operates a private freight terminal (PFT) at Kalamboli in Navi Mumbai.
It has a fleet of 23 train-sets, the largest amongst private container train operators in India, and 262 road trailers to provide door-to-door service, the release added.
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