Expertise Needed in Handling Rail Cargo
Rail logistics is the business of small margin and large volume. Rail logistics required high level of coordination in Rail Operations, Road Transportation and Handling Expertise utilization. The time and space is another challenge.
Rail or Private Freight Siding Constraints:
The loading and unloading time is fixed and crossing the free time attracts heavy demurrage charges. The rail wharf needs to vacate within free time and crossing the free time attracts heavy wharf-age charges. Lifting a steel rake cargo i.e approximately 2700MT requires 100 trailers movement in 24 Hours time that’s needs an excellent co-ordination with destination plant and transporters. A plants need to arrange priority in gate in, offloading and gate out operations.
Selection of Equipment:
The selection of suitable machine for handling cargo is also vital in operations success. The weight of steel coils (Hot Rolled / Cold Rolled Coils) varies from 3MT to 32MT. Hence, cargo profiling along with appropriate machine deployment should be in good match for fuel and machine optimum capacity utilization. We are having a range of cranes, hydra and fork to optimize the cost and time utility. We learnt from our 30 years of experience at different rail sites in PAN India for successful and satisfactory operations. Some of sites that made us more experts in our field were Nagpur (Kamleshwar Siding), Dolvi, Durgapur, Rewari, Raipur, Raigarh.
Challenges of Local Factors:
We feel each locality has its own merit as well as demerit. While we are handling PAN India, we feel local factors also plays important role in handling rail/road cargo. An excellent relationship needed to be develop in those area also. Handling Union, Labour Union, Transport Union, Mathadi..etc are local factors that is needed to be understood by going into route. Hence, we have a network of our associate who are specialized in their own local area operations. We synergize our expertise and experience with their resources and network. All these resulted into a hassle free and cost effective customer satisfaction.
Synergy with Manufacturing Unit :
Every manufacturing units has its own some priorities and differential factors. All handlers and transporters engage with to service them need to understand these factors and make planning of movement keeping those factors in view. It is must to reach at mutual goal and make long term sustainable operations.
Summary:
We always keeps our eyes and ears open to understand the different challenges of customers’ and opportunities to cut down time and cost . We are always trying to come up with solution by interacting with customers, team as well as industries experts.
We are grateful to each of them for proving us continuous support in making us more customer friendly, more enthusiastic and more better.
Thanks to our customer, team and industry experts!
