CommercialPedia Indian Railways commercial circulars and policies

Free time and rates of demurrage, wharfage and stacking charges

Open the official Railway source

Summary

Free time and rates of demurrage, wharfage and stacking charges Bunching allowance will be granted on unloading stream of traffic.

Text of the circular

No.TC-I/2005/201/2 General Manager(Comml.)

SWR, Hubli.

2 2005) Sub: Free time and rates of demurrage, wharfage and stacking charges Ref: Board's letter of even number dated 19.12.2005 (Rates Circular No. 74 of Please, refer to SWR's letter No.C.200/ DC-WF/ Free Time/06 dated 13.2.2006 seeking guidelines for grant of block rake and bunching allowances allowed to other steel plnts, vide Pera 2.4 of Rates Circular No.74 of 2005.

Block rake Allowance Guidelines for grant of block rake and bunching allowances are as under:

Government of India (Bharat Sarkar) Ministry of Railways (Rail Mantralaya) Railway Board Block rake-allcwance should be granted only on the outgoing loaded rakes subject to the condition that the rake in question fulfils the condition regarding size and destination, and is booked at train-load class-rates.

Bunching Allowance The allowance is admissible to all single point or two-point destination rakes.

Arrival time Bunching allowance will be granted on unloading stream of traffic.

of trains New Delhi, dated23.3.2006

*kk** The allowance is for calendar day bnly and will not have cumulative effect i.e.

not extendable beyond odd hours. For example, the made over time of trains after granting bunching allowance would be as under in case of the terminal dealing with five rakes in one unloading point:

1600 1800 1900 2200 (in Hours)(keeping în view the fact that 2 hrs. of bunching allowance is permitted) 2300 Due made over time (in Hours) 1600 1600+2 hrs.=1800 1800+2 hrs.-2000 1900+2 hrs.=2100=2200 220)+2 hrs.-0000 Gain Nil Nil 1 hour Nil 1 hour

3 The allowance will be granted on the basis of tippler/ hopper/ore trench/any other mode of undoading process. The trains, which are dealt with in the same unloading point or points, will be treated as one group for bunching allowance irrespective of type of rakes or commodities involved.

The allowance should be calculated on actual arrival basis.

If a particular unloading area is having two tipplers for unloading the same or similar type of commodities, then 1st two rakes arriving consequently or'at the same time will be handle on two tipplers and no bunching allowance will be granted. Subsequent rakes meant for that unloading area will be distributed among two tipplers and bunching allowance will be granted tippler-wise thereafter subject to arrival of rakes in bunched manner. The table below will explain the above issue further:

Rake No.

1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6lh Actual arrival time (in Hours) 0600 0700 0800 0900 1100 1400 Rake distribution Tippler No.1 Tippler No.2 Tippler No.1 Tippler No.2 Tippler No.1 Tippler No.2 Due made over time after affecting bunching allowance Please acknowledge receipt.

0600 The commodities dealt by the steel plarnts are boiler/middling coal, imported coal, washed coal, iron ore and fluxes broadly classified as including others.

0700 0600+2 hrs,=0800 0700+2hrs.-0900 0800+2hrs.=1000=1100 0900+2hr's.1100=1400 This issues in consultation with the Traffic Transportation and Finance Directorates in the Ministry of Railways.

2 Copy to: GM(Comml.), All Indian Railways(Except SWR) (Navin Kumar Parsuramka) Joint Director Traffic Commercial (Rates) Railway Board

More on this subject

All freight circulars · Open this circular in the search app · Search all 7,826 documents