Central Railway registered Best Ever Freight Loading of 64.09 million tonnes for the period April to December-2023, against loading of 58.45 million tonnes for the period April to December-2022, with an increase of 9.7%.

The loading in the month of December-2023 was 7.90 million tonnes as against loading of 7.52 million tonnes for the corresponding month in December-2022. This is the Best Ever Loading figures for December with an increase of 5.1%.

Central Railway has improved performance in all commodities which has enabled it to achieve the incremental loading over the corresponding month last year which has enabled a growth of 7.4% in Freight Earnings over last year.

Central Railway has registered loading of following items in December-2023 as compared to December-2022:

• 256 rakes of Cement have been loaded as against 216 rakes, which is increase of 18%
• 128 rakes of Fertilizer have been loaded as against 123 rakes.
• 122 rakes of Automobiles have been loaded as against 116 rakes.
• 225 rakes of Petroleum products have been loaded as against 215 rakes.
• 158 rakes of Iron & Steel have been loaded as compared to 132 rakes.
• 46 rakes of Iron ore have been loaded as compared to 29 rakes.
• 26 rakes of De-oiled cakes have been loaded as compared to 15 rakes.
• NTKM, which is payload of one tonne carried over one km increased by 6.2% in the month of December-2023 as compared to December-2022.

Source- CR