Indian Railways earns Rs 1,20,478 crore revenue from freight loading this FY, till Dec 2022

4 Jan 2023 , 08:48 AM

Indian Railways’ Freight loading for first nine months of financial year 2022-23 crossed last year’s loading and earnings for the same period.

On cumulative basis from April – December 22, freight loading of 1109.38 MT achieved as compared to last year’s loading of 1029.96 MT, achieving 8% growth over last year’s loading. Railways have earned Rs120478 crore against Rs104040 crore over last year which is an improvement of 16% as compared to the same period of last year.

During the month of December 22, originating freight loading of 130.66 MT has been registered against loading of 126.8 MT in December 21, which is an improvement of 3% over last year. Freight revenue of Rs14573 crore have been achieved against Rs12914 crore freight earnings in December 21, thereby an improvement of 13% over last year.

Following the Mantra, “Hungry For Cargo”, Indian Railways has made sustained efforts to improve the ease of doing business as well as improve the service delivery at competitive prices which has resulted in new traffic coming to railways from both conventional and non-conventional commodity streams.

The customer centric approach and work of Business Development Units backed up by agile policy making helped Railways towards this landmark achievement.

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