India’s Konkan Railway plans coal freight line

摘要

Indian state-controlled rail operator Konkan Railway plans to build a 103km freight line in western India to boost coal deliveries to inland users. The company’s proposed Chiplun-Karad line will carry as much as 5mn-6mn t/yr of coal in 2018, as part of 14.9mn t/ yr of freight capacity that will also increase deliveries of coke and fertilisers from western Indian ports, a Konkan Railway official said. Konkan Railway plans to complete the line, which will go to Maharashtra state’s Karad municipality from Chiplun on the Vashishti river, by 2018. It aims to increase total capacity to 43.2mn t/yr by 2033. The company expects to transport primarily thermal coal for power generation and cement plants.