New Delhi: Indian Railways (IR) recorded the best ever July monthly freight loading of 122.14 MT in the month of July '22. The incremental loading in the month of July has been 9.3 MT, that is, a growth of 8.25 per cent over the previous best July figures achieved in 2021. With this, Indian Railways has had 23 straight months of best ever monthly freight loading.

IR has achieved an incremental loading of 11.54 MT in coal, followed by 1.22 MT in Balance other goods, 0.56 MT each in cement and clinker and containers and 0.47 MT in POL. Increase in automobile loading has been another highlight of freight business in FY 2022- 23 and 1698 rakes have been loaded in FY 2022-23 till July as compared to 994 rakes during the same period of last year, that is, a growth of 71 per cent.

The freight NTKMs (Net tonne kilometers) have increased from 63.3 billion in July ’21 to 75 billion in July’22 registering a growth of 18.38 per cent. The cumulative NTKMs in the first four months have also grown by 19.46 per cent. The sustained efforts of Indian Railways to increase the supply of coal to power houses, in close coordination with the Ministry of Power and Coal, have been one of the key features of the freight performance in the month of July, said the Ministry in a statement. /BI/