Railways record highest-ever freight loading of 119.79Mn tonne in January
By TIOL News Service
NEW DELHI, FEB 10, 2021: THE Indian Railways has carried 119.79 million tonne of freight in January, its highest-ever loading figures since March 2019 when the record had been 119.74 million tonne.
"On mission mode, Indian Railways' Freight loading for the last few months have crossed last year's loading and earnings for the same period. It is expected that cumulative freight loading will surpass last year's freight loading figures," said the Ministry of Railways on Tuesday.
Till February 8, the railways was loading 30.54 million tonne which includes 13.61 million tonne of coal, 4.15 million tonne of iron ore, 1.04 million tonne of foodgrain, 1.03 million tonne of fertilisers, 0.96 million tonne of mineral oil and 1.97 million tonne of cement (excluding clinker).
The achievement in freight loading segment comes at a time when the Railways' passenger segment is still recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic when it was completely suspended.
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