<p>Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) on Tuesday said it has transported over 7.2 lakh vehicles using Indian railways over the last five years.</p>.<p>In the last fiscal alone, the country's largest carmaker transported 1.8 lakh units using the rail route.</p>.<p>It was the company's highest ever dispatch since transporting 88,000 units in 2016-17 via railways, the automaker said in a statement.</p>.<p>The increased focus on using railways has helped the company offset over 3,200 MT of CO2 emissions cumulatively, it added.</p>.<p>The company said the 1.8 lakh units dispatched last fiscal via railways route accounted for nearly 13 per cent of total sales in the same period, MSI noted.</p>.<p>"The transportation of finished vehicles via railways has many tangible benefits. It is a clean, environment friendly mode of transportation. It reduces congestion on highways and there is more space available to other vehicles. Therefore, as a conscious effort at Maruti Suzuki, we have taken important steps to enhance vehicle transportation via railways," MSI MD and CEO Kenichi Ayukawa said.</p>.<p>The auto major has come a long way from using a single deck converted rakes to deploying high speed, high capacity new design double deck rakes for transporting its units.</p>.<p>The operations started with the use of railway wagons (converted from old passenger coaches). These single deck wagons had a rake capacity to transport 125 cars.</p>.<p>With growing volumes, there was a need for a shift to high capacity dedicated wagons. Accordingly, Indian Railways' design arm RDSO (Research Design and Standards Organisation) took feedback from vehicle manufacturers, including Maruti Suzuki.</p>.<p>RDSO developed a new design, twin-deck rake that doubled the carrying capacity to 265 cars. Over 1,40,000 Maruti Suzuki cars have been transported through these twin-deck rakes.</p>.<p>RDSO further developed the rakes to improve the carrying capacity by 20 per cent.</p>.<p>These rakes now carry up to 318 cars and can be operated at speeds of 95/km per hour, highest for any goods train in India.</p>.<p>Till date, 36 high-speed and high-capacity rakes are in active use by Maruti Suzuki and its service providers for despatch of its vehicles.</p>
<p>Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) on Tuesday said it has transported over 7.2 lakh vehicles using Indian railways over the last five years.</p>.<p>In the last fiscal alone, the country's largest carmaker transported 1.8 lakh units using the rail route.</p>.<p>It was the company's highest ever dispatch since transporting 88,000 units in 2016-17 via railways, the automaker said in a statement.</p>.<p>The increased focus on using railways has helped the company offset over 3,200 MT of CO2 emissions cumulatively, it added.</p>.<p>The company said the 1.8 lakh units dispatched last fiscal via railways route accounted for nearly 13 per cent of total sales in the same period, MSI noted.</p>.<p>"The transportation of finished vehicles via railways has many tangible benefits. It is a clean, environment friendly mode of transportation. It reduces congestion on highways and there is more space available to other vehicles. Therefore, as a conscious effort at Maruti Suzuki, we have taken important steps to enhance vehicle transportation via railways," MSI MD and CEO Kenichi Ayukawa said.</p>.<p>The auto major has come a long way from using a single deck converted rakes to deploying high speed, high capacity new design double deck rakes for transporting its units.</p>.<p>The operations started with the use of railway wagons (converted from old passenger coaches). These single deck wagons had a rake capacity to transport 125 cars.</p>.<p>With growing volumes, there was a need for a shift to high capacity dedicated wagons. Accordingly, Indian Railways' design arm RDSO (Research Design and Standards Organisation) took feedback from vehicle manufacturers, including Maruti Suzuki.</p>.<p>RDSO developed a new design, twin-deck rake that doubled the carrying capacity to 265 cars. Over 1,40,000 Maruti Suzuki cars have been transported through these twin-deck rakes.</p>.<p>RDSO further developed the rakes to improve the carrying capacity by 20 per cent.</p>.<p>These rakes now carry up to 318 cars and can be operated at speeds of 95/km per hour, highest for any goods train in India.</p>.<p>Till date, 36 high-speed and high-capacity rakes are in active use by Maruti Suzuki and its service providers for despatch of its vehicles.</p>