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PM flags off world's 1st double-stack container train, launches DFC section

One train carries 360 10-feet container equivalent units (TEU), which is equivalent to 270 high capacity trailer trucks

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi flags off the 1.5-km container train hauled by electric traction from New Ateli to New Kishangarh, via video conferencing, in New Delhi on Thursday Photo: PTI

Twesh Mishra New Delhi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday flagged off the world’s first double-stack long-haul container train from New Ateli in Haryana to New Kishanganj in Rajasthan.
 
He also launched the 306-km Rewari-Madar section of the Western dedicated freight corridor (DFC).
 
Modi said that since the launch of the New Bhaupur-New Khurja section of the DFC, the average speed of freight trains has tripled in that section.
 
One train carries 360 10-feet container equivalent units (TEU), which is equivalent to 270 high capacity trailer trucks, a rail ministry statement said.
 
The corridor is expected to boost farming and

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