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Railways earn Rs 1,20,478 cr from freight loading till December 2022

By IndianMandarins- 03 Jan 2023

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New Delhi (03.01.2022): Indian Railways' freight loading for the first nine months of this financial year 2022-23 crossed last year’s loading and earnings for the same period. On a cumulative basis from April - December 22, freight loading of 1109.38 MT achieved against last year's loading of 1029.96 MT, an improvement of 8 per cent over last year's loading. Railways have earned Rs 1,20,478 crore against Rs 1,04,040 crore over last year which is an improvement of 16 per cent as compared to the same period of last year.

During the month of December 22, originating freight loading of 130.66 MT has been achieved against loading of 126.8 MT in December 21, which is an improvement of 3 per cent over last year. Freight revenue of Rs 14,573 crore have been achieved against Rs 12,914 crore freight earnings in December 21, thereby an improvement of 13 per cent over last year.

Following the Mantra, “Hungry For Cargo”, Railways have 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.