GreenLine Deploys Electric Heavy-Duty Trucks for Industrial Logistics at Kirloskar Ferrous

en.Wedoany.com Reported - On November 12, Indian green logistics operator GreenLine Mobility Solutions and Kirloskar Ferrous Industries held an electric heavy-duty truck launch ceremony at the latter's Taloja plant in Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, putting electric trucks into operation for the company's industrial logistics and transport business. The collaboration focuses primarily on inter-plant cargo transport and short-haul logistics segments suitable for electrification, with the vehicles to be used for cargo transfer within the enterprise's production supply chain.

Under this deployment, GreenLine provides electric heavy-duty truck transport services, and Kirloskar Ferrous integrates electric transport into its existing plant logistics system. Compared with conventional diesel heavy-duty trucks, electric trucks are suited to transport tasks with relatively fixed routes where vehicles can be centrally parked and recharged at the plant or designated depots. GreenLine matches transport scenarios with different energy pathways: electric trucks primarily handle short-haul transport, while LNG heavy-duty trucks continue to be used for long-distance trunk-line freight.

GreenLine is a logistics company under India's Essar Group, currently operating more than 1,200 LNG and electric heavy commercial vehicles, serving industries including steel, cement, mining, fast-moving consumer goods and chemicals. The company discloses that its fleet has cumulatively traveled over 100 million kilometers and helped customers reduce cumulative carbon dioxide emissions by more than 30,000 tonnes. These figures represent the company's overall fleet operating results and are not the emission reductions attributable solely to this Kirloskar Ferrous project.

Kirloskar Ferrous primarily manufactures pig iron, grey iron castings, steel products and seamless steel pipes, with production facilities in multiple regions of India. The introduction of electric heavy-duty trucks into the logistics operations of the Taloja plant is a concrete deployment of electrified solutions in its inter-plant transport segment.