Costing and Pricing Issues in Transport Sector - Indian Railways ...
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Freight rates for different classes<br />
• This is the ma<strong>in</strong> drawback of reduced number of classes.<br />
• Logic given was that railways are simplify<strong>in</strong>g the freight<br />
structure t <strong>and</strong> it is easier for customers tounderst<strong>and</strong>.*<br />
t d*<br />
• No customer deals <strong>in</strong> fifteen different commodities.<br />
• Neither do they deal over vary<strong>in</strong>g distances.<br />
• Most of them deal with select few commodities <strong>and</strong> they<br />
are aware of the classification of their own commodities.<br />
• Similarly, their traffic does not go all over the country to<br />
hundreds of dest<strong>in</strong>ations.<br />
– there are select few dest<strong>in</strong>ations i to which h their hi<br />
consignment is despatched, <strong>and</strong><br />
– all customers know the freight rates to those<br />
dest<strong>in</strong>ations.<br />
Tuesday, September 06, 2011 INDRA GHOSH, Adviser/Rates Slide No. 63
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