SCR earns 8,655 crore from freight loading

Hyderabad: South Central Railway has transported a record 100.052 Million Tonnes (MTs) of highest ever freight up to January 31, in the current financial year. The achievement in freight loading is around 17.433 MTs more when compared to the previous financial year loading for the same period, which was 82.619 MTs.

The zone is striving hard to continue the consistent performance to reach highest ever tonnage transportation of freight on its network. SCR is likely to reach 120 MTs by the end of this financial year. The freight earnings of SCR also reached to a new height of Rs. 8655 cr. These earnings registered a healthy growth of around 26 percent resulting with Rs. 1764 crore more revenue as compared to previous financial year’s freight revenue. R K Kulshrestha, general manager, SCR complimented the SCR team for the best performance of crossing the 100 Million Tonnes mark in freight loading.  
   
Amongst the major commodities contributed for the record loading are, the loading of coal to the extent of 53.555 MTs, cement loading was 22.948 MTs, fertilizers 5.374 MTs, imported iron ore loading 5.183 MTs; food grains 3.925 MTs, raw material for steel plants  2.275 MTs and loading of other goods was 5.07 MTs.