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Indian Railways' RO-RO service help pull off freight traffic during covid-19 pandemic

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Indian Railways introduced the Roll-on-Roll-off (RO-RO) service on Konkan Railway during the year 1999. Since then, the service is running on Konkan Railway on diesel route.

Roll-on-Roll-off’ is one such delivery model which can provide multimodal transport mix. Under the scheme, loaded trucks would be moved on the flat rakes to avoid congestion on the roads.

In a rake, approximately 44 loaded/ empty trucks will be moved. The RO-RO model is a useful and as it helps in saving fuel and turn around time and is more economical than the cost incurred by road.

With the entire nation going into a lockdown from March 25 and extended till May 3 to control the spread of covid-19 in the country , the RO-RO model cameto the rescue for many

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