{"id":67583,"date":"2020-07-03T19:15:49","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T14:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=67583"},"modified":"2020-07-03T19:15:50","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T14:15:50","slug":"eoi-invited-for-outsourcing-commercial-operations-of-trains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/eoi-invited-for-outsourcing-commercial-operations-of-trains.html","title":{"rendered":"PR invites EOI for outsourcing commercial operations of passenger trains"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lahore: Pakistan Railways (PR) on Friday decided to outsource the commercial management operations of its passenger trains by inviting expressions of interest (EOI) via a publication. Sources also claim that PR took this decision to reduce its financial losses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the details, Minister for Railways Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad directed the Railways Chief Marketing Manager Naveed Mubashir Chaudhary to prepare tenders for outsourcing commercial operations of six freight and 18 passenger trains. The interested companies and individuals from the private sector can submit their proposals by July 21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The proposal documents can be purchased from the Railways chief marketing manager\u2019s office in Lahore. As per the publication, following are the details on the passenger trains intended for outsourcing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Name<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Sections Between<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Sir Syed Express<\/td><td>Karachi Cantt \u2013 Rawalpindi via Hyderabad \u2013 Rohri \u2013 Multan Cantt \u2013 Faisalabad \u2013 Wazirabad \u2013 Rawalpindi<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Gujranwala Passenger (217Up\/218Dn)<\/td><td>Lahore \u2013 Gujranwala<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Mehr Express<\/td><td>Multan \u2013 Rawalpindi via Kot Adu \u2013 Kundian \u2013 Basal<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Hazara Express<\/td><td>Karachi City \u2013 Havelian via Rohri \u2013 Multan Cantt \u2013 Jhang \u2013 Sargodha \u2013 Lalamusa \u2013 Rawalpindi<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Attock Passenger<\/td><td>Attock City \u2013 Mari Indus<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Gujranwala Passenger (219Up\/220Dn)<\/td><td>Lahore \u2013 Gujranwala<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Jand Passenger<\/td><td>Attock City \u2013 Jand<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Gujranwala Passenger (221Up\/222Dn)<\/td><td>Lahore \u2013 Gujranwala<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Lalamusa Express<\/td><td>Lalamusa \u2013 Sargodha<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Karana Express<\/td><td>Lalamusa \u2013 Sargodha<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Chenab Express<\/td><td>Lalamusa \u2013 Sargodha<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Faiz Ahmad Faiz<\/td><td>Lahore \u2013 Narowal<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: Pakistan Railways (PR) on Friday decided to outsource the commercial management operations of its passenger trains by inviting expressions of interest (EOI) via a publication. Sources also claim that PR took this decision to reduce its financial losses. As per the details, Minister for Railways Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad directed the Railways Chief Marketing Manager Naveed Mubashir Chaudhary to prepare tenders for outsourcing commercial operations of six freight and 18 passenger trains. The interested companies and individuals from the private sector can submit their proposals by July 21. The proposal documents can be purchased from the Railways chief marketing manager\u2019s office in Lahore. As per the publication, following are the details on the passenger trains intended for outsourcing: Name Sections Between Sir Syed Express Karachi Cantt \u2013 Rawalpindi via Hyderabad \u2013 Rohri \u2013 Multan Cantt \u2013 Faisalabad \u2013 Wazirabad \u2013 Rawalpindi Gujranwala Passenger (217Up\/218Dn) Lahore \u2013 Gujranwala Mehr Express Multan \u2013 Rawalpindi via Kot Adu \u2013 Kundian \u2013 Basal Hazara Express Karachi City \u2013 Havelian via Rohri \u2013 Multan Cantt \u2013 Jhang \u2013 Sargodha \u2013 Lalamusa \u2013 Rawalpindi Attock Passenger Attock City \u2013 Mari Indus Gujranwala Passenger (219Up\/220Dn) Lahore \u2013 Gujranwala Jand Passenger Attock City \u2013 Jand Gujranwala Passenger (221Up\/222Dn)&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":61922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15012,15017],"tags":[33758,33759,33760,33761],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-67583","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allied-industries","8":"category-notices-announcements","9":"tag-commercial-operations-of-trains","10":"tag-investment-in-pakistan-railways-passenger-trains","11":"tag-tender-for-railways-trains","12":"tag-tenders-for-commercialisation-of-passenger-trains","13":"cat-15012-id","14":"cat-15017-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>EOI invited for outsourcing commercial operations of trains - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Minister for Railways Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad directed the Railways Chief Marketing Manager Naveed Mubashir Chaudhary to prepare tenders for outsourcing...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/eoi-invited-for-outsourcing-commercial-operations-of-trains.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"EOI invited for outsourcing commercial operations of trains - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Minister for Railways Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad directed the Railways Chief Marketing Manager Naveed Mubashir Chaudhary to prepare tenders for outsourcing...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/eoi-invited-for-outsourcing-commercial-operations-of-trains.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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