PSU behemoth Coal India, which is facing constraints in evacuation infrastructure, is planning to realign its logistics management of railway rakes to increase evacuation by additional 5-8 per cent.
“We are trying to push for higher evacuation capability. We are trying leverage the existing rail rakes available and utilise them to the optimum to move more coal,” CIl chairman Sutirtha Bhattacharya told PTI. He had a meeting recently with state-owned power generation companies of South India along with Railways and explored all possibilities to provide them more coal.
Bhattacharya said Coal India is trying to explore possibilities to transport coal of other subsidiaries to southern region through ports of eastern region and leveraging multi-modal transport.