Railways delivers 24th Oxygen Express To Karnataka

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The 24th Oxygen Express that Indian Railways is operating to transport liquid medical oxygen (LMO) to states reached Inland Container Depot (ICD), Whitefield, Bengaluru at 11.45pm on June 2. It had started from Kanalus, Jamnagar, Gujarat at 6.45pm on June 1. This train carried 110.84tonnes of LMO in six cryogenic containers. So far, Karnataka has received 2784.47 tonnes of LMO by rail.

Railways has so far run 344 Oxygen expresses and transported more than 23,741 tonnes of LMO in 1405 tankers to all over India to bring relief to 15 states in their fight against Covid19. As of 6pm on June 3, three loaded Oxygen Expresses were on the run with more than 194MT of LMO in 11 tankers. Till now Oxygen Expresses offloaded LMO in around 39 cities in 15 states across the country.

Oxygen Expresses Helping India Fight The Pandemic

Southern states of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Telangana have thus far received more than 2100MT of LMO each from Oxygen Expresses. It is worth mentioning that Oxygen Expresses started their deliveries 40 days back on April 24 in Maharashtra with a load of 126MT. It is the endeavour of Railways to deliver LMO in the shortest time possible to the requesting states.

Railways has mapped different routes with Oxygen supply locations and keeps itself ready with any emerging need of the states, which provide tankers to it to transport LMO. In order to ensure that Oxygen relief reaches in the shortest time possible, Railways is creating new standards and unprecedented benchmarks in running of Oxygen Express Freight Trains. 

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