NEW DELHI: Maruti Suzuki India Ltd on Wednesday said it plans to scale up rail-based vehicle dispatches to 35 per cent by FY31, up from the current 26 per cent.
The company’s Manesar in-plant railway siding has reached 1 lakh vehicle dispatches since the start of operations in June 2025, the company said in a statement.
It has resulted in an estimated avoidance of 16,800 metric tonnes CO2e (carbon dioxide equivalent), it added.
“In CY 2025, the company set a record by dispatching over 5.85 lakh vehicles through railways. Interestingly, in the past decade, our share of rail mode in outbound logistics has grown exponentially, from 5 per cent in 2016 to 26 per cent in 2025,” Maruti Suzuki India managing director & CEO, Hisashi Takeuchi said,
Further, he said, “We aim to scale up rail-based vehicle dispatches from the current 26 per cent to 35 per cent by FY 2030-31, in line with our commitment to build efficient and sus- tainable logistics and contribute to India’s net-zero ambition.”
The company’s Manesar railway siding is India’s largest automobile in-plant railway facility and the second PM GatiShakti inplant terminal for both the auto industry and the company, after the Gujarat railway siding, the statement said.
Through this inplant railway siding, the company is servicing 380 cities from 17 hubs via a dedicated hub and spoke model, it added.