Railways Records Highest Freight Loading in Jan 2021

Indian Railways’ freight loading figures for the last few months have been crossing the last year’s figures for corresponding months and the cumulative freight loading figure this year is expected to surpass the last year’s freight loading figure, a statement by the ministry said.

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Indian Railways achieved the highest ever freight loading in January 2021 clocking a figure of 119.79 MT and surpassing its previous record of loading 119.74 MT of freight in March 2019, the ministry said.

Indian Railways’ freight loading figures for the last few months have been crossing the last year’s figures for corresponding months and the cumulative freight loading figure this year is expected to surpass the last year’s freight loading figure, a statement by the ministry said.

As per the statistics till February 8, Indian Railways loading was 30.54 million tonnes which include 13.61 MT of coal.

4.15 MT of iron ore, 1.04 MT of foodgrains, 1.03 MT of fertilizers, 0.96 MT of mineral oil and 1.97 MT of cement (excluding clinker).

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