Vicat Group, a French cement multinational with Bharathi Cement as its flagship brand, and Container Corporation of India (Concor) have started a first-of-its-kind model for bulk cement transportation by rail in customised tank containers and box containers with liners.
Bharathi Cement plans to serve its key markets of Chennai, South West Tamil Nadu and Kerala from its Kadapa plant in Andhra Pradesh through this new rail-cum-road mode of transportation. “At present, 90 rail-cum-road wagons were imported by us and are in the process of importing 410 more under the scheme,” said M Ravinder Reddy, director of the company. A total of