Indian Railways on Monday claimed to have recorded the best ever August Monthly freight loading of 119.32 MT in the month. The incremental loading in the month of August has been 8.69 MT and witnessed a growth of 7.86 percent over the previous best August figures achieved in 2021, the Railways said in a statement.
With this, Indian Railways has had 24 straight months of best ever monthly freight loading and it has achieved an incremental loading of 9.2 MT in coal, followed by 0.71 MT in fertilizer, 0.68 MT in balance other goods, and 0.62 MT containers. An increase in automobile loading has been another highlight of freight business in FY 2022-23 and 2206 rakes have been loaded in FY 2022-23 till August as compared to 1,314 rakes during the same period of last year i.e. a growth of 68 percent.
According to the statement, the cumulative freight loading from April 1, 2022, to August 31, has been 620.87 MT as against 562.75 MT achieved in 2021-22 i.e. an incremental loading of 58.11 MT, with a growth of 10.32 percent over the same period last year.
The freight NTKMs (Net tonne kilometers) has increased from 63 Billion in August ’21 to 73 Billion in August’22 registering a growth of 16 percent. The cumulative NTKMs in the first five months have also grown by 18.29 percent.
Sustained efforts of Indian Railways to increase the supply of Coal to Power houses, in close coordination with the Ministry of Power and Coal, have been one of the key features of the freight performance in the month of August.
The loading of Coal (both domestic and imported) to Power Houses has increased by 10.46 MT in August with 44.64 MT of Coal being moved to Powerhouses as against 34.18 MT last year, i.e. a growth of 31 percent. Cumulatively, in the first five months of the year, IR has loaded more than 58.41 MT of extra coal to Power Houses as compared to the same period of last year, with a growth of more than 32 percent, the statement said.
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