PESHAWAR
\nPakistan Railways while expressing its intention of introducing `Peshawar Cargo Express Train\u2019 has sought proposals from private parties for outsourcing commercial management of the project.
\nAccording to an advertisement appeared in press, the proposed Peshawar Cargo Express Train will operate between Peshawar city station and Karachi city station via main line.
\nPeshawar Cargo train will run on a load of 10 ZBCs, a kind of bogies used to transport multiple items, from Peshawar, five ZBCs from Rawalpindi and ZBCs from Lahore to Karachi and vice versa, reads the advertisement issued by Deputy Chief Marketing Manager Freight, Zeeshan Shahzad.
\nThe train, having a potential carrying capacity of 1500 tonnes, will operate daily both from Peshawar to Karachi and from Karachi to Peshawar with en-route stopping stations of Lahore and Rawalpindi for attaching and detaching of ZBCs.
\nThe interested parties are asked to submit proposals for launching of the project till April 19, 2023 while a pre-bid with all the interested parties will be held on April 13, the advertisement added.
\nMeanwhile the plan of Pakistan Railways for launching of Peshawar Cargo Express Train has been highly hailed by business community dealing in import, export and trade with Afghanistan.
\nChairman Standing Committee of Sarhad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) on Railways, Zia-ul-Haq Sarhadi termed the decision as long lasting demand of business community of the country.
\nThe decision will not only prove as a potential source of revenue generation for Pakistan Railways but will also solve a lot of problems being faced by business community due to transportation of goods between Karachi and Peshawar through bonded carriers.
\nTransportation of goods in cargo train will also revive the lost livelihood of more than 270 Custom Clearing Agents in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and make the newly constructed Aza Khel Dry port as operational, added Zia ul Haq Sarhadi who is also President Frontier Custom Clearing Agents Association.
\nHe said consignments of different goods including gemstones, minerals, furniture, fruits, handcraft, herbal items and match sticks are exported on daily basis from Peshawar to Karachi and that will be sent through cargo train.
\nSimilarly, raw material for different industries in KP are being transported from Karachi which can also be a source of earning for Pakistan Railways. He also mentioned that in prevailing scenario of price hike of petroleum products, transportation of goods between Karachi and Peshawar has become much expensive and putting a huge burden on businessmen.
\nThrough launching of the cargo train service, the businessmen will get a relief from increasing freight of transportation of goods through trucks between port city and Peshawar.
\nZia Sarhadi stressed upon Pakistan Railways to fully concentrate on execution of the proposed launching of the Peshawar Cargo Train service which will not only benefit business community of the country, but also prove as very beneficial for railway by increasing revenue and employment generation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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