Railways records in freight loading of 119.32 MT, August FY22

Indian Railways (IR) recorded Monthly freight loading of 119.32 MT which is a 7.86% growth in August’22. The incremental loading in the month of August has been 8.69 MT. With this, Indian Railways has had 24 straight months of best ever monthly freight loading.

IR has achieved an incremental loading of 9.2 MT in Coal, followed by 0.71 MT in Fertilizer, 0.68 MT in Balance other goods, and 0.62 MT in Containers.

An increase in automobile loading has been another highlight of Freight Business in FY 2022-23 and 2206 rakes have been loaded in FY 2022-23 till August as compared to 1314 rakes during the same period of last year i.e. a growth of 68%.

The cumulative freight loading from 1st April’2022 to 31st August ’2022 has been 620.87 MT as against 562.75 MT achieved in 2021-22 i.e. an incremental loading of 58.11 MT, with a growth of 10.32 % over the same period last year.

The freight NTKMs (Net tonne kilometers) have increased from 63 Billion on August 21 to 73 Billion in August’22 registering a growth of 16 %. The cumulative NTKMs in the first five months have also grown by 18.29 %.

The sustained efforts of Indian Railways to increase the supply of Coal to Powerhouses, 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 August.

The loading of Coal (both domestic and imported) to Power Houses has increased by 10.46 MT in August with 44.64 MT of Coal being moved to Powerhouses as against 34.18 MT last year, i.e. a growth of 31%. Cumulatively, in the first five months of the year, IR has loaded more than 58.41 MT of extra coal to Power Houses as compared to the same period of last year, with a growth of more than 32%.

The commodity-wise growth number show that IR has achieved impressive growth in almost all commodity segments with the following growth rates :

sources: IR