Railways registers highest ever freight loading in FY 2021-22
The Indian Railways achieved its highest ever freight loading in the financial year 2021-22, it said on Saturday.
The national transporter loaded 1,418.1 MT of freight in 2021-22, which is 15 per cent higher compared to 1,233.24 MT in 2020-21, it said in a statement.
This is the highest ever loading for the railways in a financial year and it has achieved its highest ever monthly loadings for 19 consecutive months from September 2020 to March 2022, it added.
It also achieved a record electrification of 6,366 RKMs (route kilometres) ing the last financial year.
The previous highest electrification was 6,015 RKMs in 2020-21. As on March 31 this year, of the 65,141 RKMs of the railways’ BG (broad gauge)
