Tag: Oxygen Express

  • Oxygen Express delivers 2114.21 MT LMO to Kerala, Tamil Nadu

    The Southern Railway has delivered 2114.21 Metric Tonnes of Liquid Medical Oxygen (LMO) to Tamil Nadu and Kerala by way of 32 ‘Oxygen Express’ trains to assist these states tide over the difficulties in provide throughout the second wave of the pandemic.
    Three Oxygen Express trains have so delivered 380.2MT of Oxygen to Kerala, a railway assertion mentioned right here on Saturday. All the three rakes have been offloaded at Vallarpadam Container Terminal in Kochi.
    The third Oxygen Express, loaded at Rourkela (Odisha) for the Vallarpadam Container Terminal, arrived on the vacation spot on May 27, it mentioned.
    Meanwhile, as many as 29 loaded Oxygen Express trains have to this point delivered 1734.01 MT of LMO to Tamil Nadu.

    The final two Oxygen Express trains from Rourkela reached the state with 116.85 MT of the life-saving gasoline on May 29, it mentioned.
    Indian Railways has delivered greater than 20,770 MT of LMO in additional than 1237 tankers to numerous states throughout the nation.
    As many as 305 Oxygen Expresses have accomplished their journey to this point and introduced reduction to numerous states.

    A complete of 614 MT of Oxygen has been offloaded in Maharashtra, almost 3731 MT in Uttar Pradesh, 656 MT in Madhya Pradesh, 5327 MT in Delhi, 1967 MT in Haryana, 98 MT in Rajasthan, 1994 MT in Karnataka, 320 MT in Uttarakhand,1734.01 MT in Tamil Nadu, 1668 MT in Andhra Pradesh, 225 MT in Punjab, 380.2 MT in Kerala, 1770 MT in Telangana, 38 MT in Jharkhand and 240 MT in Assam, it mentioned.
    Running on the excessive precedence Green Corridor, with the best sense of urgency, Railways is creating new requirements and unprecedented benchmarks in working of Oxygen Express Freight Trains, the assertion added.

  • Railways did wonderful, provide 7115 MT of Oxygen from Oxygen Express

    Indian Railways is continually engaged on its mission of supplying liquid medical oxygen on demand from totally different states of the nation, dealing with the present challenges and searching for new measures. Indian Railways has thus far equipped liquid oxygen for the usage of about 7115 MT in 444 tankers in varied states of the nation by Oxygen Express. About 800 metric tons of oxygen had been equipped to varied elements of the nation yesterday by the Oxygen Express.

    Under this marketing campaign, the journey of 115 Oxygen Express has been accomplished thus far and reduction has been offered to varied states. Indian Railways is dedicated to produce liquid medical oxygen in as a lot amount and as brief time as potential on the demand of the states and is constantly engaged on it.

  • Its tankers unfit for ‘Oxygen Express’, Punjab takes street route to move O2

    While pulling all stops to move oxygen in a speedy method from Bokaro metal metropolis, Punjab authorities is confronted with a peculiar drawback as majority of its tankers — 14 out of 15 accessible — should not being allowed on the ‘Oxygen Express’ for not assembly the peak requirements. As a outcome, the Punjab-bound tankers are being compelled to take the street route which is taking them 3 days to succeed in the state as an alternative of 30 hours by practice.
    With restricted sources, Punjab authorities isn’t with the ability to avail “90 metric tonnes of daily oxygen quota” from Bokaro allotted to the state by the Centre.
    Out of the 15 oxygen tankers that the state has, just one has been discovered to make it to ‘Oxygen Express’, with its peak assembly the ceiling cap of three.5 metres, The Indian Express has learnt.
    After the railways refused to hold the oxygen tankers airlifted from Punjab to Jharkhand on ‘Oxygen Express’ citing peak problem, the Punjab authorities went in for to “double check” the peak measurements from authorized meteorology division.
    However, after the train, it was discovered that just one tanker was adequate to be permitted on ‘Oxygen Express’.
    The peak parameters by the railways have been fastened factoring in peak of the tunnels, and the bridges on rail route.

    From April 28, Punjab has airlifted two such tankers every day by the Indian Air Force to Jharkhand.
    However, after being denied transportation by way of ‘Oxygen Express’ because of peak problem, the tankers filled with oxygen from Bokaro took the street route with police escort. Punjab authorities additionally requested for “green corridor” for clean street transportation.
    The first batch of two oxygen tankers was airlifted to Jharkhand on April 28, and two tankers are being despatched through air path to Jharkhand every day since then.
    According Punjab Industries Director Sibin C, it took about three days for the tankers to succeed in Punjab from Bokaro after completion of all formalities there. The transportation by way of ‘Oxygen Express’ would have enabled to succeed in the tankers stuffed with oxygen to the state in about 30 hours, Sibin added.
    Punjab Principal Secretary Industries and Commerce Alok Shekhar instructed The Indian Express that the state authorities was in strategy of getting two further oxygen tankers following parleys with the Centre authorities, however these two tankers would even be “bigger in capacity”, exceeding the three.5 metre peak norms for ‘Oxygen Express’.
    Shekhar stated that “the Centre has allocated 90 metric tonnes quota of oxygen for Punjab from Bokaro. We have been able to avail 30 to 40 metric tonnes of oxygen on an average daily”.
    He stated that the tankers airlifted to Bokaro had been of personal gamers who had been earlier supplying oxygen throughout the state, together with to authorities services.

    Shekhar stated, “We have only 15 oxygen tankers and there is three day backlog in a tanker reaching Punjab from Bokaro through road route after landing in Ranchi from Punjab, making about a four hour journey to Bokaro, filling, completing the paperwork and starting journey back to Punjab.”
    He stated that the tankers bringing oxygen from Bokaro had been being operated by non-public gamers and the state authorities was coordinating when it comes to requirement of the fuel specifically areas.
    As per a “status note on the activities of the Industries and Commerce Department” throughout Covid resurgence, Punjab authorities arrange a management room deputing particular officers entrusted with varied verticals together with getting quota launched from outdoors provide and coordination with supply plan, rising the manufacturing of atmospheric separation models (ASUs) throughout the state, allocation of the provision to the required districts as per instructions from well being division and monitoring the motion of the automobiles and coordination with the fuel companies.
    As per the word, the Industries and Investment departments in dialogue with previous ASUs within the state, after having dialogues with them, had been to date profitable in beginning the manufacturing of no less than six models, thereby enhancing the manufacturing of medical oxygen by 14 metric tonnes.
    Out of the 14 models, the division contacted, whereas six have already began manufacturing, similar variety of models are prone to begin re-energising their oxygen vegetation between per week to 6 months. Two models, one in Amritsar and one other in Bathinda, haven’t been discovered possible to supply oxygen. The Punjab Industry Department can also be participating with industries at district degree to supply empty cylinders mendacity with them handy over to the respective district for efficient use to fill and use for medical functions. Out of complete 7,138 such cylinders accessible throughout the 22 districts of the state, 4,090 have already been offered to respective administrations by Saturday morning and one other 604 had been able to be delivered, as per the official statistics.

  • CDS Bipin Rawat briefs PM Narendra Modi about operation by Armed Forces in dealing with Covid surge

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi was briefed by Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat in regards to the efforts and operations by the Armed Forces in aiding the states and civil administration in combating the surging second wave of the Covid-19 circumstances throughout the nation.
    While the Air Force has been transporting medical tools, together with oxygen tankers, each domestically and internationally, the Navy was despatched to Lakshadweep as part of Oxygen Express. The Armed Forces Medical Services has deputed its workers on the numerous unique Covid-19 services being arrange by DRDO in Delhi, Varanasi and Lucknow amongst different cities.

    Rawat knowledgeable the Prime Minister that “all medical personnel from armed forces who have retired or taken pre-mature retirement in the last 2 years are being recalled to work in Covid facilities within proximity of their present place of residence” and different medical officers, “who retired earlier have also been requested to make their services available for consultation through medical emergency helplines”.

    He additionally advised Modi that every one medical officers on workers appointments on the command, corps, division headquarters and the headquarters of the Navy and the Air Force will likely be employed at hospitals.
    The Defence Ministry talked about in an announcement that Rawat apprised Modi about nursing personnel being employed in “large numbers to complement the doctors at the hospitals”.
    As the assorted elements of the nation are going through a dearth of medical oxygen, Rawat additionally advised Modi that “oxygen cylinders available with armed forces in various establishments will be released for hospitals”. The forces, Rawat stated, are “creating medical facilities in large numbers and where possible military medical infrastructure will be made available to civilians”.
    Modi additionally reviewed operations being undertaken by the Air Force to move oxygen and different necessities in India and overseas. On Monday, Air Force’s C17 transport plane landed in Dubai to airlift seven empty cryogenic oxygen containers. It will attain Panagarh by 5:30 within the night. The Air Force had introduced 4 cryogenic oxygen tankers from Singapore to Panagarh on Saturday.
    Apart from these, the Air Force’s transport fleet has been conducting common sorties all through the nation carrying important medical tools to completely different elements.

    During his assembly with the CDS on Monday, Modi additionally mentioned “that Kendriya and Rajya Sainik Welfare Boards and Officers posted in various headquarters in veterans’ cells may be instructed to coordinate the services of veterans to extend the reach to maximum extent possible including in remote areas”.
    Defence Minister Rajnath Singh had held two evaluate conferences with the armed forces and different wings of the ministry, asking them to work on a war-footing and lengthen all attainable help to the civil administration.
    The armed forces, together with the Defence PSUs, Ordnance Factory Board, DRDO and different arms of the Defence Ministry have been rising their contributions within the fight towards the pandemic.
    DRDO has reopened its Covid-19 facility in Delhi final week, with 500 beds, and is establishing a 500-bed Covid hospital in Patna, a 450-bed hospital in Lucknow, a 750-bed hospital in Varanasi and a 900-bed hospital in Ahmedabad, all of that are both already purposeful or will likely be within the coming days.

    On Friday, the ministry had talked about that AFMS will import 23 oxygen technology vegetation and containers from Germany, which will likely be deployed in AFMS hospitals. These vegetation have a capability to provide 40 litres of oxygen per minute and a pair of,400 litres an hour. At that price, they “can cater to 20-25 patients round the clock” and are “easily portable”, the ministry had stated.

  • As a part of Oxygen Express, naval ships despatched to help operations in Lakshadweep

    The Navy, which had been stored on standby to convey oxygen containers from outdoors the nation if wanted, joined the oxygen transport efforts on Sunday. As a part of the Oxygen Express, naval ships had been despatched to help the Lakshadweep operations.
    In a press release on Sunday, the Navy talked about that beneath Kochi-based the Southern Naval Command Headquarters naval ships are progressing with the mission of Oxygen Express “in order to render support to the local administration of the Union Territory of Lakshadweep”.

    On April 25 morning, INS Sharda undertook the switch of important medical provides to Kavaratti, and the shops consisted of 35 Oxygen cylinders, Rapid Antigen Detection Test (RADT) kits, Personnel Protective Equipment (PPE), masks and different objects to combat the pandemic.
    “The disembarkation of stores was coordinated by personnel from INS Dweeprakshak at Kavaratti. The ship then continued with her mission to the island of Minicoy for disembarkation of Oxygen cylinders and medical supplies,” the Navy stated.

    As a part of India’s combat in opposition to COVID 19, the @indiannavy deploys ‘Oxygen Express’to Island Territories.
    Today INS Sharda, undertook switch of important medical provides to Kavaratti, Lakshadweep. pic.twitter.com/EY96jA3mat
    — रक्षा मंत्री कार्यालय/ RMO India (@DefenceMinIndia) April 25, 2021

    It additionally said that “41 empty Oxygen cylinders from the islands have been embarked onboard Indian Navy hired vessel, Meghna,” which then headed to Kochi for his or her refilling and can take them to Lakshadweep “to ensure that the Oxygen Express continues unabated”.
    The operations are happening beneath the Navy’s supervision in coordination with the United Territory’s administration.
    “To assist the civil administration in fighting Covid 19 at the island of Kadmat, a Naval contingent comprising one doctor, two Medical Assistants and one additional sailor reached” there and the Southern Naval Command HQ “has also reserved ten beds including ICU facilities for patients from Lakshadweep at INHS Sanjivani, Kochi to cater for shortages in beds at the islands”.

    Further, the Navy talked about that its Air Station INS Garuda has additionally been positioned on alert to increase Naval airfield services for helicopters ferrying sufferers from Lakshadweep and Air Evacuation Pods developed indigenously by the Naval Aircraft Yard, Kochi to airlift sufferers from the islands in addition to from elsewhere are additionally being made prepared for emergency necessities.

  • Covid-19: ‘Oxygen Express’ involves rescue of states dealing with scarcity of provide

    In the center of the second wave of Covid-19, hospitals in India are dealing with an enormous scarcity of medical oxygen. In a bid to fulfill the excessive demand of the essential fuel meant for the therapy of coronavirus sufferers, the Indian Railways has began “Oxygen Express” trains to ferry oxygen tankers from one area to a different.
    From Maharashtra to Uttar Pradesh, hospitals across the nation are sending out frantic messages that they’re working out of oxygen and urging the federal government to take pressing measures to extend the manufacturing and provide of oxygen. In the wake of the disaster, the Centre had lately allowed industrial oxygen to be diverted for medical use even because the Railways began ‘Oxygen Express’ to hold oxygen tankers via inexperienced corridors in a bid to make sure sooner transportation.

    The Railways are working the “Oxygen Express” practice from metal crops that produce oxygen to totally different components of the nation.
    Here’s an inventory of states the place the Oxygen Express has been capable of ship oxygen
    Maharashtra
    The first Oxygen Express carrying seven tankers full of liquid medical oxygen from Visakhapatnam reached Maharashtra on Friday (April 23). The practice arrived at Nagpur at 8.10 pm, bringing reduction to the state which is reeling below a surge in coronavirus instances and shortages of medical oxygen.

    The practice carrying the oxygen tankers pulled out from a facility run by Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd (RINL) in Visakhapatnam on Thursday night. Each tanker is carrying 15 tonnes of liquid medical oxygen. “A joint effort by Waltair Division of East Coast Railways, and officials of RINL made the project a success. This will prove to be highly beneficial during the recent upsurge in COVID-19,” the railways mentioned in an announcement on Thursday.
    Uttar Pradesh
    An Oxygen Express practice carrying three tankers of liquid medical oxygen arrived in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday morning from Bokaro in Jharkhand. “Two trucks of medical oxygen arrived in Lucknow around 6.30 am while one truck was offloaded in Varanasi. Each truck has a capacity of containing 15,000 litres of medical oxygen,” Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Awanish Kumar Awasthi mentioned.

    Second Oxygen particular practice with tankers of oxygen arrives in Lucknow from Bokaro in Jharkhand pic.twitter.com/HQMpeA7VHt
    — ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) April 24, 2021
    He added, “The arrival of two trucks of medical oxygen will meet around half the demand of Lucknow for Saturday. The state capital will now be in a better position.”

  • Gasping for breath, Delhi, UP and Andhra request Railway for ‘Oxygen Express’

    Facing an acute scarcity of medical oxygen amid rising Covid circumstances, the state governments in Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and UT Delhi have requested the Indian Railway to move oxygen tankers from numerous vegetation throughout the nation to their respective states.
    The Railway launched the ‘Oxygen Express’ service for sooner transportation of medical oxygen to states going through a scarcity of life-saving fuel. Maharashtra has already positioned a request earlier than the railway for transportation of oxygen from Vizag and the prepare is now returning again to the state.

    While UP is requisitioning oxygen from the Bokaro metal plant and the Jamnagar refinery in Gujarat, Delhi has requested oxygen to be lifted from the Rourkela metal plant in Odisha, officers stated. Andhra Pradesh has made a request for oxygen to be transported from Angul in Odisha to Vijaywada.
    “Various states are asking us for movement of oxygen by trains including. Just now we have received a request from Delhi to move oxygen from Rourkela and some other plants. The details are being worked out. We have told them (the Delhi government) to keep their tankers ready. Our wagons and locomotives are ready. Our ramps are ready at different locations in the NCR region. We expect the movement to take place shortly,” Railway Board Chairman and CEO Suneet Sharma stated.
    On different states sending related requests, Sharma stated, “We have already run one Express from Maharashtra to Vizag and it is now coming back. The second is requirement from UP which is being done from Bokaro. The train has already left Bokaro with three tankers. UP has put another request to move liquid oxygen from Reliance refinery in Jamnagar. We are in close touch with State, Western Railways and RIL to work this out. Andhra Pradesh has asked us to move tankers from Vijaywada to Angul in Odisha where there is a steel plant. We have already identified wagons and ramps from where tankers will be carried to Angul and then come back with oxygen. It should happen in the next couple of days.”
    Both Delhi and UP, which have seen an enormous surge in Covid-19 circumstances up to now couple of weeks, are going through a shortage of medical oxygen. Delhi is especially troubled with an enormous shortfall of 220 MT in its oxygen demand. Many hospitals in Delhi have reported regularly working out of oxygen and sufferers dying for the shortage of it.
    On Friday morning, 25 vital sufferers at Sir Gangaram Hospital died after the ability ran out of oxygen. Hospitals have additionally began turning away sufferers citing lack of oxygen to assist them.
    In the wake of the disaster, the Centre had just lately allowed industrial oxygen to be diverted for medical use even because the railways began ‘Oxygen Express’ to hold oxygen tankers by inexperienced corridors in a bid to make sure sooner transportation.

    The first Oxygen Express left two days again from Mumbai to Vizag and is at present on its approach again carrying seven tankers (112 MT) of oxygen. One tanker has 16 tonnes of payload. The prepare is meant to achieve Nagpur later within the day after which to Nashik and different locations within the state.
    “We are demanding more tankers so that all our rakes can be fully utilised. There is of course the challenge for states to get more tankers. But railways is fully ready to meet all demands,” Sharma stated.

    The chairman stated working the oxygen Express had been a novel problem for the Railways as all crucial logistics needed to be moved at a brief discover. As many of the oxygen vegetation are within the japanese a part of the nation, trains have to maneuver throughout the size and breadth of the nation, sources stated.
    “Then the railways had to map the entire route as large parts had ghats. New ramps had to be built and specific size tankers had to be identified which could pass through tunnels, platform canopy and overbridges. To manage their height, tyres of many tankers had to be deflated. Since oxygen is cryogenic, you cannot move at a very high speed. Curves and specific accelerations and decelerations had to be worked out,” Sharma stated.

  • Railways to run ‘Oxygen Express’ trains to fulfill excessive demand amid surge in COVID-19 instances

    The Railways will run ‘Oxygen Express’ trains over the following few days to move liquid medical oxygen and oxygen cylinders throughout the nation, the nationwide transporter mentioned on Sunday.
    Amid spiralling coronavirus instances within the nation, the demand for medical oxygen within the nation has gone by way of the roof.
    Empty tankers will start their journey from Kalamboli and Boisar railway stations in and close to Mumbai on Monday to load liquid medical oxygen from Vizag, Jamshedpur, Rourkela and Bokaro, officers mentioned.
    “Roll-on-Roll-off oxygen trucks getting loaded for Oxygen Express. Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership, the Government of India is committed to doing everything possible to help COVID-19 patients,” Railway Minister Piyush Goyal mentioned in a tweet.
    Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra state governments had earlier approached the Railways Ministry to discover whether or not liquid medical oxygen tankers might be moved by the rail community, officers mentioned.
    On the receipt of the request from the 2 states, the Railways instantly explored the technical feasibility of transportation of liquid medical oxygen. It needs to be transported by way of roll-on-roll-off service with highway tankers positioned on flat wagons.
    “Since the first empty tankers will move on April 19, we hope to begin operations of Oxygen Express over the next few days. We would be able to send oxygen wherever there is such demand. Green corridor is being created for fast movement of Oxygen Express trains,” an official mentioned.
    A gathering was held between Railway Board officers and state transport commissioners and representatives of the trade on April 17 on points associated to transportation of liquid medical oxygen.
    “Instructions have been issued to zonal railways to make sure readiness to obtain the trailers and cargo them. Ramps need to be constructed at Vizag, Angul and Bhilai and the present ramp at Kalamboli is to be strengthened.
    “The Kalamboli ramp can be made prepared by April 19. Ramps at different places would even be prepared in a few days by the point the tankers attain these places.
    “Due to restrictions of height of Road Over Bridges and over-head equipment at certain locations, the model of road tanker T-1618 with a height of 3,320 mm was found feasible to be placed on flat wagons (DBKM) with a height of 1,290 mm,” the railways mentioned in an announcement.
    In order to make sure that parameters of transportation are examined, trials had been carried out at numerous places, it mentioned.
    On April 18 a trial was organised by the Western Railway at Boisar the place a loaded tanker was positioned on a flat DBKM wagon and all of the required measurements had been taken.
    The Railways have already positioned DBKM wagons at Kalamboli and at different places. The Railways is awaiting recommendation from Maharashtra to maneuver the tankers.

    A tentative motion plan has been made for dispatching 10 empty tankers on April 19, the Railways mentioned.
    “The transport secretary of Maharashtra has assured to provide the tankers by April 19,” it mentioned.

    In order to allow industrial reserving and freight cost for roll-on-roll-off motion of liquid medical oxygen in cryogenic tankers, the Railway Ministry had issued a round on April 16 offering all mandatory particulars and steering on the matter.
    Zonal railways have been knowledgeable in regards to the calls for from states.