New Delhi: Indian Railways’ freight loading for the first ten months of this financial year 2022-23 crossed last year’s loading and earnings for the same period. On a cumulative basis from April - January 23, freight loading of 1243.46 MT was achieved against last year’s loading of 1159.08 MT, an improvement of 7 per cent.

Railways have earned Rs 135387 crore against Rs 117212 crore over the last year which is an improvement of 16 per cent as compared to the same period of last year, said the Ministry of Railways in a statement. During the month of January’23, originating freight loading of 134.07 MT has been achieved against loading of 129.12 MT in January 22, which is an improvement of 4 per cent over last year. Freight revenue of Rs 14907 crore has been achieved against Rs 13172 crore freight earnings in January 22, thereby an improvement of 13 per cent over the last year. 

Following the mantra of ‘Hungry For Cargo,’ the Indian Railways has made sustained efforts to improve the ease of doing business as well as improve the service delivery at competitive prices which has resulted in new traffic coming to railways from both conventional and non conventional commodity streams. The customer centric approach and work of Business Development Units backed up by agile policy making helped Railways towards this landmark achievement. /BI/