DFC sets record of running one lakh trains

May 27, 2023

New Dadri junction (Uttar Pradesh), 27 May (ANI): Recently, Member of Operations & Business Development of Railway Board Jaya Varma Sinha flagged off the 1,00,000th train running on the DFC alignment. On this occasion, she also footplated in the train along with Nanduri Srinivas, the Director of OP&BD, DFCCIL. Till now 55,332 trains have moved on the Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor (EDFC) and 44,658 trains on the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor (WDFC). With the commissioning of the New Dadri – New Rewari section, freight transportation can be seamlessly done from the hinterlands of Uttar Pradesh to the Western ports of India. DFC is a vital cog in the National Logistics Policy which aims to reduce the cost of logistics from 15 per cent (approx.) of the country’s GDP to 8 per cent by 2030.