East Coast Dedicated Freight Corridor or East Coast DFC is a proposed freight specific railway in India under the Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV). It will be constructed by Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India (DFCCIL) of Indian Railways. It is going to be a broad gauge double line-electrified corridor. This corridor will cover a total distance of Template:Convert. This corridor will run from Kharagpur in West Bengal to Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh.[1][2] The total cost of the project would be around ₹44,000 crore (US$6 billion).[3]
References
- ↑ Dedicated Freight Corridors: Paradigm Shift Coming in Indian Railways’ Freight Operations. Press Information Bureau.
- ↑ Railways consider more dedicated freight corridors. The Hindu(11 February 2013).
- ↑ 44,000 crore freight corridor on east coast in the works(16 August 2018).