More cargo complexes on the anvil

Bangalore: Encouraged by the success of the railside cargo complex launched jointly by the Indian Railways and Central Warehousing Corporation in Whitefield near Bangalore as early as 2000, both the organisations decided to have more such complexes and accordingly signed an MoU in 2003 to launch 22 complexes all over the country. Fourteen of them have since become operational while the work on two others, to be located at Dankuni (West Bengal) and Dehri-on Sone (Bihar), is to start s hortly. The Railway sources hope that the work on the remaining six will start by April 2008 and all of them will become operational by March 2009. While the Railways is providing the land, goods sheds and lines to help the cargo complexes come up, the actual operation is being undertaken by CWC which is providing total logistics solutions to those choosing to use these complexes geared to cater to both rail-borne and road transport traffic.