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| Date | 2025-06-30 |
|---|---|
| Type | Corrigendum |
| Topic | freight |
| Directorate | Traffic Commercial |
| Currency | Currency not verified |
Details of all policy circulars are given in the following link -
Rates Branch (Commercial Dte)/Railway Board 1 Important Policy Measures for Freight Customers (Indicating Initiatives taken during December 2024 – January 2025) Ministry of Railways have 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 Directorateon 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. 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 ofFreight 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(referRates 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) Details of all policy circulars are given in the following link - Freight Incentive Schemes Initiatives taken during December, 2024 To generate additional loading of Fly Ash/Bed Ash and to improve utilization of rolling stock, Freight Incentive Scheme for Fly Ash/Bed Ash has been introduced. Rates Circular No.19 of 2024 Rates Branch (Commercial Dte)/Railway Board 2 The validity of guidelines for non levy of Terminal Charge in case of Automobile Traffic has been extended till 30.06.2025. Corrigendum 5 to Rates Circular No.14 of 2019 Initiatives taken during January, 2025 Policy guidelines for concession to Short Lead Traffic has been extended till 31.12.2025. Corrigendum No.06 to Rates Circular No.06 of 2020 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 respectively. Cargo Transportation Product facilitates cargo aggregation and expands the commodity basked of IR. Details of all policy circulars are given in the following link - Policy G
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