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| Date | 2026-05-01 |
|---|---|
| Type | Commercial Circular |
| Topic | freight |
| Directorate | Traffic Commercial |
| Official PDF | indianrailways.gov.in |
Rates for Haulage Charge and Siding Charge have been revised for different types of
Important Policy Measures for Freight Customers_Rates Branch (Commercial Dte), Railway Board 1 Important Initiatives for Freight Customers (Indicating Initiatives taken during April-July 2026) Ministry of Railways has taken a number of freight policy measures to promote movement of goods traffic through railways. List of initiatives duly referring policy circular are given below. For full details of the initiatives, customers may visit the webpage of Traffic Commercial Directorate on Indian Railway’s website. Customers may get in touch with Sr. Divisional Commercial Manager at Division level or Chief Commercial Manager(FM) at Zonal Railway level for any freight traffic related query. Customers may also visit the website of FOIS (www.fois.indianrail.gov.in) to know more about freight traffic and policies. They can get all requisite information e.g. freight class and rate for all commodities; position of indent/demand for each station; outstanding indents, shortest/popular routes, terminal handling facilities and freight calculator. Customers can track and trace their rakes while logging their accounts in FOIS. TARIFF MEASURES 1.0 FREIGHT INCENTIVE SCHEME With a view to offer a competitive Freight Rates to customers and, thereby, attracting more traffic to rail, a number of Freight Incentive Schemes have been launched by Indian Railways namely Liberalized Automatic Freight Rebate Scheme for traffic loaded in Traditional Empty Flow direction (TEFD), Merry Go Round (MGR), Concession on short lead traffic, Station to Station (STS) rates, etc. TEFD provides automatic rebate from the computerized FOIS system shall become available to customers offering traffic in inter-zonal/intra-zonal traditional empty flow direction subject to fulfillment of certain terms and conditions stipulated in this policy (refer Rates Circular No.9 of 2024 and amendments thereto). Under MGR, concession is granted on movement of coal traffic in closed circuit (Rates Circular No.7 of 2016 and amendments thereto).Under Short lead concession, graded concession is granted on movement of traffic upto 100 Kms (Rates Circular No.20 of 2016 and amendments thereto).Under STS, concession is granted on incremental traffic over benchmark NTKM(Rates Circular No.15 of 2022 and amendments thereto) Link of the Policy Circulars: Freight Incentive Schemes Initiatives taken during April, 2026 Guidelines regarding Merry Go Round(MGR) System of operations by railway have been extended and the current rates have been revised by 5%(five percent), w.e.f 01.05.2026 and valid upto 30.04.2027. (Rates Circular No.08 of 2026) Important Policy Measures for Freight Customers_Rates Branch (Commercial Dte), Railway Board 2 Certain traditional empty flow streams involving DFCCIL have been added for Liberalized Automatic Freight Rebate Scheme for traffic loaded in Traditional Empty Flow Direction(TEFD), w.e.f. 10.04.2026 and valid upto 30.06.2026. (Corrigendum No.06 to Rates Circular No.9 of 2024) Initiatives taken during July, 2026 Detailed guidelines for Liberalized Automatic Freight Rebate Scheme for traffic loaded in Traditional Empty Flow Directions (TEFD) have been issued, w.e.f. 01.08.2026 and valid upto 31.07.2027. (Rates Circular No.15 of 2026) 2.0 TRANSPORTATION PRODUCT Full rake movement is beneficial for Railways as well as Customers. Trainload Rate Benefit is offered to customer for full rake movement. This rate is more or less 10% lower than the rate applicable to piecemeal/less than full rake movement. Guidelines have been prescribed for different transportation products such as Block Rake, Mini Rake, Two Point/Multi Point combinations, Cargo Aggregator Transportation Product. Block Rake is train carrying notified number of wagons for a single destination. Mini Rake is a short rake composed of lesser number of wagons than specified for a block rake. Two/Multi-point rakes are trains carrying wagons destined to two or more than two destinations respec
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