Indian Railways has recorded best ever August Monthly freight loading of 119.32 MT in August 2022, stated official data of the Government. The incremental loading in the month of August stood at 8.69 MT i.e. a growth of 7.86 % registered over the previous best August figures achieved in 2021. With this, Indian Railways recorded 24 straight months of best ever monthly freight loading.
The Railways 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. Rise in automobile loading has been another highlight of Freight Business in FY23 and 2206 rakes have been loaded in FY 2022-23 till August as against 1314 rakes during the same period of last year i.e. a jump of 68%.
The cumulative freight loading from 1st April 2022 to 31st August 2022 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% over same period last year.
The freight NTKMs (Net tonne kilometers) rose from 63 Billion in August 2021 to 73 Billion in August 2022, recording a growth of 16%. The cumulative NTKMs in the first five months also surged by 18.29%.
“The sustained efforts of Indian Railways to increase supply of Coal to Power houses, in close coordination with 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 (including both domestic and imported) to Power Houses has increased by 10.46 MT in August with 44.64 MT Coal being moved to Power houses as against 34.18 MT last year, i.e. a rise of 31%.
Cumulatively, in the first five months of the year, IR has loaded more than 58.41 MT extra coal to Power Houses as compared to same period of last year, with a growth of more than 32%”, said the Centre in an official released data.
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