The freight corridors are finally moving the needle on logistics
Average freight train speeds on the dedicated corridors are more than double the old network. The cost data is starting to follow.
Sana Qureshi
6 min read
India has talked about logistics costs for two decades. The dedicated freight corridors — a project old enough to vote — are now carrying enough traffic to test whether the promised savings are real.
Freight speeds: corridor vs legacy network
Average freight train speed, km/h
Speed is the headline metric, but reliability matters more to shippers. Corridor trains now arrive within their scheduled window far more often than trains on the mixed-use network, which lets factories hold thinner inventories. That inventory saving, invisible in freight rates, may be the biggest gain of all.
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Sana Qureshi
Sana reports on industry, manufacturing and trade, with a focus on what official datasets reveal about India’s factories.
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