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TRANSPORT? * India - Mumbai to Kolkata by truck: 11 km an hour
9 tonnes of cargo, 23 toll points, 26 border checkposts, 8 days’ travel New Delhi,India -The Indian Express, by ZEENAT NAZIR -September 05, 2007: -- The 2,150-km journey from Mumbai to Kolkata takes just over two days by rail and four days by car. But drive a a cargo-laden truck and the trip takes almost eight days, courtesy checkposts and toll points that occur by the dozen along the way. It traverses the distance at a snail’s pace of just 11 km per hour, losing almost two days idling at checkposts and other technical barriers, reveals a recent study... Conducted by Transport Corporation of India (TCI), the study tracked the progress of a truck carrying 9 tonnes of general cargo between the two metros, and revealed that it had to stop 23 times along the way for toll collection and another 26 times at border check posts for sales tax, octroi and documentation verification purposes, which together accounted for a massive 32 hour set-back in the journey... With these issues continuing to impact the profitability and productivity of the trucking business — leading to margins as low as 3-4 per cent in some cases — companies like TCI and Indo Arya are diversifying into areas like warehousing and logistics, or shifting to other modes of transport like rail... (Photo by geocities.com/india500cc : India's Road, many buses and cargo trucks going in both directions)
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