Dedicated Freight Corridors - DFC

[SKC]

This thread will track updated on the in construction Dedicated Freight Corridors of India.

 

[SKC]

Dedicated Freight Corridors are a network of Broad gauge Railway lines with the objective of separating freight traffic from passenger traffic on high density routes in order to improve operational efficiency, reduce cost of operation and carry higher volumes of freight traffic.

Project is being undertaken by DFCCIL - Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India which is working on two corridors:

1. Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor starting from Ludhiana in Punjab to Dankuni in West Bengal.

2. Western Dedicated Freight Corridor from Jawaharlal Nehru Port in Mumbai (Maharashtra) to Dadri in Uttar Pradesh.

The two routes cover a total length of 3,260 KM.​

 

[SKC]

All Corridors envisioned so far:

 

[SKC]

DFCCIL Office in Noida:

 

[SKC]

As of April 2024, Eastern DFC is fully operational and ~85% of Western DFC is operational.

Currently, EDFC is having 2x60 trains in operation daily and WDFC has 2x100 train operations. That is 320 trains daily. The plan is to take this to 400 trains daily by end of 2024. Track utilization stand around 50% currently. This needs to be increased with time and Govt should push more and more business to start using the corridors.​

 

[SKC]

The Detailed Project Review (DPR) of North-South and East-Coast Freight Corridor are being prepared has been submitted whereas the DPR for East-West DFC will be submitted by April-end (2024). The combined project value is expected to be Rs. 2 lakh crores.​

 

[Blademaster]

All Corridors envisioned so far:

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So the ones in the bold lines are built and the ones in dashed are being planned? We need another connection from Mumbai to Goa down all the way to Kerala.

 

[SKC]

So the ones in the bold lines are built and the ones in dashed are being planned? We need another connection from Mumbai to Goa down all the way to Kerala.

Yes!

And there is caution with starting the new Corridors as the current two corridors went 3 times over the initial budget. Also, the track utilization is currently between 40-50%. Once this reach over 70-80%, we will start earning healthy revenue and have other corridors approved and in construction.​

 

[SKC]

Latest Updates from a recent interview of RK Jain, MD of DFCCIL:​

• That last 100 km of WDFC in Maharashtra will hopefully be ready and in use by December 2025.​
• There are 2x100 trains a day on EDFC, 2x60 trains on WDFC, 320 overall that they hope to get upto 400 by end of year​
• Track usage is 40-50%, they are confident of taking it up to 150%​
• Line segregation by DFC will reduce operational cost of running all trains​
• All DPRs are sent, it's up to Railway Board.​
• They are using WDFC for e-commerce deliveries, and want to get more cargo types on board​
• They are looking to have automobile transportation from Sanand to Kanpur​
• Waiver of 18% GST applies on DFC and is of a lot of help​

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[Blademaster]

Yes!

And there is caution with starting the new Corridors as the current two corridors went 3 times over the initial budget. Also, the track utilization is currently between 40-50%. Once this reach over 70-80%, we will start earning healthy revenue and have other corridors approved and in construction.​

Doesn't matter. We need to do it anyway. The gestation period takes rather a long time and time is the most valuable commodity. The DFC corridors will pay themselves back in short order.

 

[SKC]

Doesn't matter. We need to do it anyway. The gestation period takes rather a long time and time is the most valuable commodity. The DFC corridors will pay themselves back in short order.

Yes, it matters a lot. As it is said ""Paise Ped par nahi ugte"

Govt is already spending huge amount on Infra and these new corridors alone will end up consuming hefty part of it if approved.

Let the first two corridors utilize their full potential and then it should start funding on their own.​

 

[ezsasa]

Doesn't matter. We need to do it anyway. The gestation period takes rather a long time and time is the most valuable commodity. The DFC corridors will pay themselves back in short order.

DFC is not the only logistics corridor that is happening, there are expressways, road widening of existing national highways and adding additional railways tracks too. for past 7-8 years, at any given point in time there are atleast 100 lakh crore worth of logistics related projects going on in the country.

DPR for additional DFC has to make economical sense, considering other parallel projects that are in pipeline or under implementation. goal is to reduce logistics cost, not depend on just one type of infra project.

 

[Blademaster]

DFCCIL Office in Noida:

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looks very barren. Needs more sprucing up with more greenery and better sidewalks and parking facilities etc.

 

[Blademaster]

DFC is not the only logistics corridor that is happening, there are expressways, road widening of existing national highways and adding additional railways tracks too. for past 7-8 years, at any given point in time there are atleast 100 lakh crore worth of logistics related projects going on in the country.

DPR for additional DFC has to make economical sense, considering other parallel projects that are in pipeline or under implementation. goal is to reduce logistics cost, not depend on just one type of infra project.

I understand the parallel projects taking place. Still freight trains are the best movers of cargo by a mile over any of its competitors and are often the anchor of any long term logistic policy dealing with large freight. As long as we link the entire country through all of its geographical areas, major cities, and ports, the ROI will be readily apparent and will be fiscally sustainable.

 

[Suryavanshi]

looks very barren. Needs more sprucing up with more greenery and better sidewalks and parking facilities etc.

It is at the end of greater Noida and entire north looks like that in peak summer.

Doesn't matter. We need to do it anyway. The gestation period takes rather a long time and time is the most valuable commodity. The DFC corridors will pay themselves back in short order.

Some projects need to bear fruit before the same modle is replicated somewhere else.
Goi is on a tight budget and while DFC is necessary, they still need to be maintain a pace that will allow breathing space for any change in the previous model of execution and the expertise gained from the same. Besides our ability to scale is not similar to that of China. It will improve but will still be considerably less.

 

[ezsasa]

I understand the parallel projects taking place. Still freight trains are the best movers of cargo by a mile over any of its competitors and are often the anchor of any long term logistic policy dealing with large freight. As long as we link the entire country through all of its geographical areas, major cities, and ports, the ROI will be readily apparent and will be fiscally sustainable.

ROI for DFC is established for gangetic plains and maharashtra since these are population centres and legacy trade routes, not for western ghats. building DFC in ghat areas is much costlier and time consuming, as it happened in the current DFC as well. there is a ghat section in current DFC, it needed a engineering marvel to over come that little section in haryana.


View: https://youtu.be/GjPWZaAHD-A

 

[Nutcracker]

I understand the parallel projects taking place. Still freight trains are the best movers of cargo by a mile over any of its competitors and are often the anchor of any long term logistic policy dealing with large freight. As long as we link the entire country through all of its geographical areas, major cities, and ports, the ROI will be readily apparent and will be fiscally sustainable.

Right now we are suffering from under-utilisation. Means rather than making more tracks we need to increase CAPEX-LOAN for MSME and mega textile parks. Also for other parts of supply chains like production of cheaper raw material.