Indian Railways achieves highest ever freight loading

Nov 27, 2023 Anish Mondal

This is one of the biggest achievements since independence

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In FY 2022-23, it recorded freight loading of 1512 MT

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It witnessed an incremental loading of 94 MT from FY 2021-22

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In FY 2021-22, IT achieved freight loading of 1418 MT

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In FY 2017-18, the railways achieved freight loading of 1161 MT

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One of the key reason is transportation of coal

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It also recorded an excellent performance in automobile loading

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In Q1 and Q2 of FY 2023-24, it achieved freight loading of 758.20 MT

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