BHUBANESWAR: East Coast Railway (ECoR) has surpassed all records of Indian Railways in freight loading in 2023-24. The zonal railway has loaded 256.22 million tonne of freight between April 1, 2023 and March 31, 2024 breaking the earlier record.
With this, ECoR has become the first zone to cross the milestone of 200 million tonne freight loading for the fifth time in a row. The freight loaded by the zonal railway is around 6.1 per cent (14.72 million tonne) more than that of the corresponding period of last fiscal.