Freight rates fall on tight movements, position of trucks

NEW DELHI, Oct 28: Freight rates for the nine-tonne payload section for select centres dropped by Rs 1000 at the local truck transport market in the national capital today following tight cargo movements amid huge position of trucks.
Transporters said insufficient cargo movements and heavy availability of trucks mainly pulled down some of the centres freight rates.
Delhi to Goa, Thiruvananthapuram, Puducherry and Mysore freight rates dropped by Rs 1000 each to Rs 59,000, Rs 82,000, Rs 67,000, Rs 66,000.
Rates to Bengaluru, Chennai, Pune, Mumbai and Surat also moved down by Rs 1000 each to Rs 62,000, Rs 64,000, Rs 30,000, Rs 28,000 and Rs 26,000.
Following are today’s freights per 9-tonne load (in Rs): Jaipur          18,000      Hyderabad               57,000 Chandigarh      20,000      Vijayawada              59,000 Ludhiana        19,000      Bengaluru               62,000 Kanpur          21,000      Chennai                 64,000 Indore          22,000      Mysore                  66,000 Ahmedabad       22,000      Puducherry              67,000 Baroda          23,000      Coimbatore              70,000 Patna           26,000      Kochi                   73,000 Surat           26,000      Thiruvananthapuram 82,000 Mumbai          28,000      Goa                     59,000 Pune            30,000      Gwalior                 14,500 Kolkata         33,000      Guwahati                62,000 (PTI)