Business Development Unit (BDU) of Eastern Railway Capturing New Streams of Freight Traffic

Business Development Unit (BDU) of Eastern Railway Capturing New Streams of Freight Traffic

Business Development Unit (BDU) has been formed at Eastern Railway Headquarters as well as in four Divisions of ER viz Howrah, Sealdah, Asansol & Malda to offer prospective customers of Freight Traffic for loading of miscellaneous goods enhancing their Rail transportation share of traditional commodities as well as introducing new commodities for transporting through Railways. Besides, based on the feedback from the stakeholders , ER is keen to implement suggestions for improvement in overall freight business.

With the set up ofBDUs, ER has alreadycaptured new streams of traffic like sand from Asansol division, Fly ash from Sagardighi Thermal Power Plant, Fly ash from NTPC at Kahalgaon etc. Besides, new freight traffic exploring initiatives have been started for capturing Ferro-manganese traffic to Punjab from Raniganj area , Steel from Raniganj area (Asansol division) in mini rakes or containers , Steel to Northern India from M/s Shyam steel and Super Smelter (Durgapur area), Steel pipe to various destinations from Durgapur area , stone traffic fromHarinsingha & Pirpainti goods shed etc.

The BDUs of ER are continuing interaction with the stakeholders in a regular measure for sustained growth in freight traffic.