Railway Freight Carrier Makes Record In February 2023 This Year

Railway: Indian Railways has recorded the best ever monthly freight loading of 124.03 MT in February. The incremental loading in the month of February has been 4.26 MT i.e. it is 3.55 per cent more than the figures of February last year. This is the best monthly freight traffic of Indian Railways for 30 consecutive months. Indian Railways has achieved incremental loading of 3.18 MT in Coal, 0.94 MT in Fertilizers, 0.66 MT in Balance of Other Goods, 0.28 MT in POL and 0.27 MT in Containers.

Automobile loading also increased
While growth in automobile loading has been another highlight of freight business in FY 2022-23 and 5015 rakes have been loaded till February in FY 2022-23 as against 2966 rakes during the same period last year i.e. a growth of 69% Had happened.

freight traffic increased steadily
Freight NTKM (net tonne kilometres) moved up to 73 billion in February. Which was 70 billion in February ’22 last year. In which an increase of 4.28 percent has been recorded. Cumulative freight NTKM from Apr’22 to Feb’23 stood at 82 Billion as against 74 Billion, a growth of 10.81% over the same period last year.

Freight figure increased by 15.44 percent in 11 months
According to Railways, the sustained efforts of Indian Railways in coordination with the Ministries of Power and Coal to increase the supply of coal to power houses has been one of the key features of the freight performance in the month of February. The loading of coal (both domestic and imported) to power houses increased by 3.39 MT in January, with 45.63 MT of coal being transported as against 42.24 MT in the previous year, ie an increase of 8 per cent. Cumulatively, in the first eleven months of the year, Indian Railways has loaded more than 79.69 MT of additional coal, a growth of over 15.44 per cent as compared to the same period last year.

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