Central Dispatch Yard (CDY), a unique project built at a cost of ₹320 crore in a sprawling 200 acre-area of Visakhapatnam Steel Plant was inaugurated on Saturday.
The state of the art project facilitates improvement in logistics and smooth dispatch of VSP products by road and rail to its customers and marketing stockyards of RINL spread across the country from a single location.
The yard is equipped with facilities like unloading area, stacking, traffic and marketing building, four static rail weigh bridges and road weigh bridges and signalling systems, loading and dispatch yard with loading platforms with track length of 3.76 km.
Inaugurating the facility, RINL Chairman-cum-Managing Director P.K. Rath said logistics played a vital role in strengthening the marketing network of RINL-VSP as the volumes were increasing due to completion of expansion and modernisation of the plant.
He described the inauguration of CDY as a dream come true for RINL and congratulated the agencies involved and commercial wing for early completion of the project.
The new yard will facilitate improvement in logistics in a smooth manner at a single location with rake retention time coming down significantly.
Mr. Rath flagged off the road dispatch of various products of RINL amid loud cheers among the employees.
He also released dispatch orders to various customers to mark the occasion. R. Nagarajan, in-charge Executive Director (Projects) highlighted the salient features of the project.
