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Indian shippers looking for some respite from soaring freight rates now face additional landside costs.

Indian Railways (IR), the public enterprise that governs and operates the country’s rail systems, has again scaled down the haulage subsidies allowed for the movement of empty containers.

The rebate scale, reduced from 25% to 15% in April, has this week been revised further, to 10%, through the end of October.

Haulage charges are the fees levied by IR on containerised rail operators for the use of its ...

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