Ninth O2 Express Brings 120 Tonnes Of LMO To Karnataka

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Karnataka on May 23 received the ninth Oxygen Express that reached ICD Whitefield, Bengaluru. Transporting 120 tonnes of Liquid Medical Oxygen (LMO)  at 7.30am, this special train had started from Tatanagar, Jharkhand at 11.35pm on May 21. Indian Railways created a signal free 'Green Corridor' to enable swift transport of this Oxygen Express, that is, this train had a stoppage free run and did not have to wait for crossing/passage of another train. 

The 9th Oxygen Express That Reached ICD, Whitefield, Bengaluru On May 23

This train carried six cryogenic containers and each cryogenic container carried 20 tonnes of LMO for a total tonnage of 120 tonnes. So far, Karnataka has received 1062.14 tonnes of liquid medical oxygen by Rail. Indian Railways has so far run 224 Oxygen Expresses and transported nearly 14,500 tonnes of liquid medical oxygen in 884 tankers to all over the country to assist state governments in their fight against Covid19. The Railway Ministry has accorded top priority to these trains.


COMPLEX OPERATION

Oxygen expresses started their deliveries 28 days back, that is on April 24 in Maharashtra with a load of 126 MT. Crisscrossing the country, Indian Railways is picking up oxygen from places like Hapa, Baroda, Mundra in the West and Rourkela, Durgapur, Tatanagar, Angul in the East and delivering it to Uttarakhand, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Haryana, Telangana, Kerala, Delhi & UP in complex operational route planning scenarios. 

As of 4pm on May 22 (O2 Express Updates/O2 Express Update - Kannada), Indian Railways had offloaded 614MT of LMO in Maharashtra, nearly 3463MT in Uttar Pradesh, 566MT in Madhya Pradesh, 4278MT in Delhi, 1698MT in Haryana, 98MT in Rajasthan, 943MT in Karnataka, 320MT in Uttarakhand, 769MT in Tamil Nadu, 571MT in Andhra Pradesh, 153MT in Punjab, 246MT in Kerala and 772 MT in Telangana. Railways has mapped different routes with Oxygen supply locations and keep itself ready with any emerging need of the states. 

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