Bhubaneswar, Sep 4 : East Coast Railway (ECoR) has loaded 100.90 MT of freight during the first five months of the current financial year from April 1 to August 31 as against 97.13 MT carried out in the corresponding period of last fiscal.
With this, it has loaded 3.77 MT incremental cargo during the current financial year by registering an increase of 3.9 percent and becoming the first railway to achieve more than 100 MT loading in 2023-24 fiscal, ECoR sources here on Monday said.
All this could be possible due to outstanding performance of all the three Divisions of East Coast Railway, i.e. Khurda Road, Waltair and Sambalpur.
During the period, ECoR has loaded 61.30MT of Coal, 3.33MT of Raw material for Steel Plants, 8.21 MT of Iron & Steel, 11.68MT of Iron Ore, 0.76MT of Cement, 1.29MT of Food Grains, 2.57MT of Fertilizer, 1.24MT of POL, 1.76MT of freight loaded in Containers and 8.76MT of other cargo.
The major contributors of freight include Talcher, Paradeep, Dhamara, Visakhapatnam, Gangavaram, Keonjhar, KK Line, Steel Plants, Aluminium plants and from other places of ECoR jurisdiction.
During the period, 63.59MT of freight carried from Khurda Road Division, 29.75MT of freight from Waltair Division and 7.54MT of freight carried from Sambalpur Division.
In August 2023 only, East Coast Railway carried 20.43MT of freight as against 19.90MT carried in the same time of 2022 by registering an increase of 2.7 percent more freight.
