Indian Railways records best ever February Monthly freight loading of 124.03 MT in February 2023
A growth of 3.55 % over the previous best February figures achieved in 2022.
Cumulative freight loading from April'22 to February ’23 has been 1367.49 MT
Indian Railways has had 30 straight months of best ever monthly freight
loading
Indian Railways
has recorded best ever February Monthly freight loading of 124.03 MT in February
’23. The incremental loading in the month of February has been 4.26 MT i.e. a
growth of 3.55 % over the previous best February figures achieved in 2022.
With this, Indian
Railways has had 30 straight months of best ever monthly freight loading.
IR has achieved an
incremental loading of 3.18 MT in Coal, followed by 0.94 MT in Fertilizers,
0.66 MT in Balance of other Goods, 0.28 MT in POL and 0.27 MT in Container.
Increase in automobile
loading has been another highlight of Freight Business in FY 2022-23 and 5015
rakes have been loaded in FY 2022-23 till February as compared to 2966 rakes
during the same period of last year i.e. a growth of 69%.
The cumulative freight
loading from April’22 to February'23 has been
1367.49 MT as against 1278.84 MT achieved in 2021-22 i.e. an incremental
loading of 88.65 MT, with a growth of 6.93 % over same period last year.
The freight NTKMs (Net
tonne kilometers) have increased to 73 Billion in February’23 from 70 Billion
in February’22 registering a growth of 4.28%. The cumulative freight NTKMs from
April’22 to February'23 has been 82
Billion as against 74 Billion with a growth of 10.81 % over same period of last
year.
The sustained efforts
of Indian Railways to increase supply of Coal to Power houses, in close
coordination with Ministries of Power and
Coal, have been one of the key features of the freight performance in the month
of February. The loading of Coal (both domestic and imported) to Power Houses
increased by 3.39 MT in January with 45.63 MT Coal being moved to Power houses
as against 42.24 MT last year, i.e. a growth of 8.02 %. Cumulatively, in the
first eleven months of the year, IR has loaded more than 79.69 MT extra coal to
Power Houses as compared to same period of last year, with a growth of more
than 15.44 %.
The commodity wise
growth numbers show that IR
has achieved growth in almost all commodity segments with the following growth rates:
Commodity |
Variation (MT) |
% variation |
Coal |
3.18 |
5.70 % |
Fertilizer |
0.94 |
25 % |
Balance of Other
Goods |
0.66 |
6.51 % |
POL |
0.28 |
7.77 % |
Container |
0.27 |
4.32% |