Indian Railways (IR) recorded its best monthly freight loading of 122.14 MT in July 2022. The incremental loading in July has been 9.3 MT i.e. 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 monthly freight loading.

Railways have 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 & Clinker and Containers and 0.47 MT in POL.

An 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 i.e. a growth of 71 percent.

The freight NTKMs (Net tonne-kilometres) have increased from 63.3 billion in July 2021 to 75 billion in July 2022 registering a growth of 18.38 percent. 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 July.

The loading of Coal (both domestic and imported) to Power Houses has increased by 13.2 MT in July with 47.98 MT of Coal being moved to Power houses as against 34.74 MT last year, i.e. a growth of 38 percent.