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Chennai, Oct 24 Sical Logistics Ltd has started operating a third container train on the Delhi-Chennai sector. The deployment of the third rake on the North-South corridor promises improved frequency with one train every four days, according to a press release.

The service will be further increased with the addition of a fourth rake by December.

Sical’s second rake is deployed on the Delhi-Chennai sector carrying general cargo such as cars, steel pipes, malt, raw rubber and industrial chemicals. It has transported about 20,000 tonnes of cargo on the Chennai-Delhi sector since August 2008, the release says.

The company has a tie-up with Sattva Conware Pvt Ltd, for establishing an ‘inland container depot’ at Melpakkam, enabling it to service the industrial belt of Sriperumbudur, Ranipet, Tiruchi, Puducherry and Salem. The company also has an agreement to access a private rail siding at Patli, near Delhi, which it currently utilises for the operations of its second rake.

The Chennai-based multimodal logistics solutions provider for bulk and containerised cargo obtained the category one pan-India licence in January 2007 to run container trains for export-import and domestic cargo. It has since transported about 0.5 lakh tonnes of copper concentrates, copper cathodes and finished products for Hindustan Copper Ltd between Ghatsila in Jharkhand, Khetri in Rajasthan and Taloja near Mumbai.

Sical Multimodal And Rail Transport (SMART) Ltd, the 100 per cent subsidiary of Sical operating and managing container trains, plans to add ten more rakes to its fleet by 2011, the release says.

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