Amazon India announced that it has further strengthened its operational engagement with the Indian Railways, with more than 325 inter-city transportation lanes for movement of customer packages. This is 5X increase in railway lanes since it began working with the Indian Railways in 2019, and is one of the enablers for the company to offer 1-day and 2-day delivery promises to customers in the hinterlands of the country. Amazon India now ferries customer packages with the Indian Railways to cities in West Bengal such as Siliguri and Murshidabad among others.
Amazon was the first company in the Indian e-commerce space to work with the Indian Railways to build an express transportation product via rail in 2019. During the pandemic in 2020, the company also worked with the Indian Railways to prioritize intercity movement of high priority products by leveraging the ’COVID-19 Parcel Special Trains’.
Venkatesh Tiwari, Director- Amazon Transportation, India, said, “We will continue to engage with the Indian Railways and create more opportunities to use the strong network and infrastructure built by them.”
