NEW DELHI: Delhi will lead Indian trucking into the gas age. Indraprastha Gas Ltd, the Capital\u2019s 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.
\n\u201cTCI 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,\u201d IGL managing director E S Ranganathan told TOI.
\nThis will be the first commercial trucking operation in the country \u2013 once it starts \u2013and mark Indian transport sector\u2019s 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.
\nRanganathan said conversion of each trailer will cost Rs 9 lakh and take about three months since it would entail importing fuel tanks etc. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI: Delhi will lead Indian trucking into the gas age. Indraprastha Gas Ltd, the Capital\u2019s 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. \u201cTCI 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,\u201d IGL managing director E S Ranganathan told TOI. This will be the first commercial trucking operation in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,219,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}