Central Railway’s Freight Loading of 73.16 million tonnes for the period April-2022 to February- 2023, against loading of 68.57 million tonnes over the same period of 2021-22, with an increase of 6.69%, is the Best Ever loading for April-February of any year.
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- Central Railway earned traffic revenue of Rs.727.27 crore in February-2023 as compared to Rs.625.89 crore in February-2022, which is an increase of 16.2%.
- Central Railway has registered Coal loading of 903 rakes in February-2023 as against 885 rakes in February-2022. Loading of Iron & Steel has increased to 144 rakes in February-2023 as against 102 rakes in February-2022.
- Also 76 rakes of Automobiles were loaded in February-2023 as against 50 rakes in February-2022.
- Central Railway has improved performance in all commodities which has enabled it to achieve the incremental loading over last year.
- 42 rakes of onion in February-2023 as against 16 rakes in February-2022.
- 200 rakes of Petroleum products were loaded in February-2023 as against 176 rakes in February-2022.
- 114 rakes of Fertilizer have been loaded in February-2023 as against 87 rakes in February-2022.
- 31 rakes of de-oiled cakes were loaded in February-2023 as against 7 rakes in February-2022.
- Container loading in February-2023 improved by 4.4% over last year. 661 rakes were loaded in February-2023 as against 633 rakes in February-2022.
- NTKM, which is payload of one tonne carried over one km increased by 14.4% in the month of February-2023 as compared to February-2022.
Source: Central Railway- Press Release | Image Credit (representational): SCR
