Delhi’s IGL will lead Indian trucking into gas age

NEW DELHI: Delhi will lead Indian trucking into the gas age. Indraprastha Gas Ltd, the Capital’s sole supplier of CNG, is working on a plan to convert the fleet of heavy-duty trailers hauling containers between the Tughlaqabad inland port and the industrial belt stretching up to Rewari in Haryana.
“TCI has a fleet of 40 trailers. We are discussing to convert them to LNG (liquefied natural gas), beginning with nine vehicles. LNG is clean-burning fuel and will help reduce emission from heavy vehicles,” IGL managing director E S Ranganathan told TOI.
This will be the first commercial trucking operation in the country – once it starts –and mark Indian transport sector’s entry to the LNG covenant. For a country where the transport sector guzzles 40% of diesel sales, the environmental benefit from LNG, in terms of reduced vehicular pollution, will be huge. China and the US are currently the world leaders in converting their highway freight service.
Ranganathan said conversion of each trailer will cost Rs 9 lakh and take about three months since it would entail importing fuel tanks etc.