We use Google Cloud Translation Services. Google requires we provide the following disclaimer relating to use of this service:
This service may contain translations powered by Google. Google disclaims all warranties related to the translations, expressed or implied, including any warranties of accuracy, reliability, and any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and noninfringement.
One and a half years have passed since the inauguration of the cargo train service from Bathnaha to Integrated Checkpoint (ICP) of Biratnagar in India. Cargo train has not been operated since the inauguration.
Businessmen hoped that with the operation of cargo, the cost of expensive transportation freight could be reduced. However, since the service has not yet started, the hopes of businessmen are limited to hope.
It was estimated that while transporting industrial raw materials by cargo train from Kolkata to Biratnagar ICP, it would cost around two rupees per kg. This is about 40 percent less than the transportation costs of trucks and containers.
According to the agreement between the government of Nepal and India to operate an 18.7 km cargo train service from Bathnaha in Bihar to Kathari in Morang in the year 2061, in the first phase, a 7.6 km railway line has been constructed from Bathnaha to Nepal's customs yard at ICP in Biratnagar.
On 18th June 2080, the then Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi jointly inaugurated the cargo train in New Delhi.
90 percent of the raw materials coming to the Sunsari Morang Industrial Corridor are being imported from Kolkata port in India. Daily about More than 300 trucks and containers enter Nepal.
