Freight rates up on busy cargo movements, less trucks

NEW DELHI, Feb 13: Freight rates for nine-tonne pay load section improved by Rs 1,000 at the local truck transport market today following the shortage of trucks against cargo movements.
Transporters said besides fresh cargo movements, paucity of trucks in the market pushed up freight rates of some of the centres.
Delhi to Goa, Coimbatore, Surat and Kanpur freights went up by Rs 1,000 each to Rs 59,000, Rs 69,000, Rs 25,000 and Rs 21,000, respectively.
Rates to Baroda, Patna, Pune and Kolkata also went up by Rs 1,000 each to Rs 24,000, Rs 27,000, Rs 29,000 and Rs 32,000, respectively.
Following are today’s freight rates per nine-tonne load (in Rs):
Jaipur          17,000      Hyderabad               56,000 Chandigarh      19,000      Vijayawada              57,000 Ludhiana        20,000      Bengaluru               60,000 Kanpur          21,000      Chennai                 62,000 Indore          22,000      Mysore                  64,000 Ahmedabad       22,000      Puducherry              66,000 Baroda          24,000      Coimbatore              69,000 Patna           27,000     Kochi                   72,000 Surat           25,000      Thiruvananthapuram        81,000 Mumbai          26,000      Goa                     59,000 Pune            29,000      Gwalior                 14,000 Kolkata         32,000      Guwahati                60,000 (PTI)
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