UPSC Articles
Freight Business Development Portal
Part of: GS Prelims and GS-III – Infrastructure
In news
- Freight Business Development Portal was recently launched as one stop solution for all the needs of freight customers.
- Ministry: Ministry of Railways
Key takeaways
- The portal is designed to replace physical processes with online ones to minimise the need of human-to-human interaction.
- it will help them use rail mode seamlessly.
- The personalised dashboard of freight business portal provides customers a view with their business in railways, outstanding indents, on-run consignments, status of various interactions and facility to apply for various services and raising concerns.
- Customers also get to know about discount schemes, diversion, rebooking, demurrage and wharfage waivers, stacking permissions.