{"id":367572,"date":"2020-08-14T10:08:21","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T04:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=367572"},"modified":"2020-08-14T10:28:50","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T04:58:50","slug":"freight-rates-on-coal-supply-cil-asks-for-discount-railways-says-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/freight-rates-on-coal-supply-cil-asks-for-discount-railways-says-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Freight rates on coal supply: CIL asks for discount, Railways says no"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National miner Coal India (CIL) has asked the Indian Railways to provide a 15 per cent concession on freight rates for supplying coal to power units located at distances of 701 km and 1,400 km. The Indian Railways, however, turned this down. <\/p>\n<p>The request is in line with the efforts of the company and the Centre to reduce coal imports. The company said the plea comes in the wake of the Railways offering a 20 per cent distance-based concession on rail freight price for transporting coal and coke, among other commodities, to distances in excess of 1,400 km. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cExtension of freight concession also to customers located in 701 km to 1,400 km could result in substantial domestic coal lifted by them in place of coal sourced from abroad due to lower conveyance cost,\u201d said a senior executive of the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National miner Coal India (CIL) has asked the Indian Railways to provide a 15 per cent concession on freight rates for supplying coal to power units located at distances of 701 km and 1,400 km. The Indian Railways, however, turned this down. The request is in line with the efforts of the company and the Centre to reduce coal imports. The company said the plea comes in the wake of the Railways offering a 20 per cent distance-based concession on rail freight price for transporting coal and coke, among other commodities, to distances in excess of 1,400 km. \u201cExtension of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,170,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-coal-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367572","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}