Railways records best ever freight business in 2022-23

SRINAGAR (PTK):- Indian Railways has recorded the best-ever performance in the freight segment in its recorded history during the just concluded financial year 2022-23.

As per the preliminary data by the Ministry of Railways, railways achieved a freight loading of 1,512 MT (million tonnes), an incremental loading of 94 MT over the previous best of 1,418 MT achieved in 2021-22.

Indian Railways has achieved an incremental loading of 74.6 MT in coal, followed by 8.7 MT in other goods, 5.6 in cement and clinkers, 7.1 MT in fertilizers, 5 MT in containers, and 4 MT in petroleum, oil and lubricants. (PTK)