Title - Soft Drinks have become new freight for Khurda Road Division

Transportation of soft drinks have become a new form of traffic for Khurda Road division of East Coast Railway. After dispatching the first freight train loaded with soft drinks on March 17, 2018 from Khurda Road to Fatuha in Bihar there has been consistent order of soft drink transportation with the division.

A local bottling plant of a branded Soft Drinks after facing lots of difficulties in despatching Soft Drinks by Road, the manufacturers approached Railways through their logistics provider. Railways had provided a Parcel Train with 20 Parcel Vans for carrying Soft Drinks from Khurda Road to Fatuha.

Each such Train Traffic is expected to fetch the Railways an amount of around rupees 12 lakhs plus.  Rail movement is generally preferred over Road Traffic as it can carry twenty times the volume and deliver the goods in less than half the time compared to Road Traffic.