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Kolkata, July 17 APL-promoted India Infrastructure & Logistics Pvt Ltd, the private container train operating company offering services under the brand name of APL India Linx, hopes to shortly run reefer containers between its terminal at Loni (near Delhi) and Jawaharlal Nehru port. The Container Corporation of India is the only other container train operator that offers reefer services.

“Initially, the cargo inducement may not be enough to form a full reefer rake which will be run in due course,” according to a spokesman for India Infrastructure & Logistics.

A full reefer rake comprises 42 FEUs (forty-ft containers) plus three power packs, each pack supporting 14 containers on an average. Meat, mainly buffalo meat for shipments to West Asia, comprises the bulk of the reefer exports from India, though some quantities of fruit, fruit pulp and other perishables are also exported.

India Infrastructure & Logistics launched its service between north India and JNPT on May 31 with one rake and has since operated 10 services on the route, each with good cargo support entailing about 90 per cent utilisation.

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