ECoR records highest ever freight loading in 2021-22 fiscal

East Coast Railway (ECoR) has loaded highest ever freight in the just concluded 2021-22 fiscal and created history by securing top position in freight loading.

Since the last four years, ECoR has secured top position in freight loading. Since the inception of new zone, ECoR has consistently witnessed incremental loading over the previous year performance, in the field of freight transportation.

ECoR has loaded 232.13 MT of freight in 2021-22 fiscal and surpassed the last financial year annual loading of 204.90 MT, registering an incremental growth of 13.28 per cent.

ECoR has carried 27.23 million tons of more cargo than the freight loading achieved in last fiscal. From the above, ECoR has also earned Rs 23012.32 crore from freight traffic in this FY which is also the highest in Indian Railways.

During the period, ECoR has carried 52.8 MT freight from Talcher area, 21.6 MT from Paradeep area, 21 MT from steel plants, 15.2 MT from Dhamara area, 14 MT from Visakhapatnam area, 13.7 MT from KK Line, 9.9 MT from Gangavaram port, 8 MT of aluminum from its jurisdiction and 20.6 from other area.

This could be possible due to outstanding performance of all the three Divisions of East Coast Railway – Khurda Road, Waltair and Sambalpur. Major contributors of freight included Talcher, Paradeep, Dhamara, Visakhapatnam, Gangavaram, Keonjhar, KK Line, steel plants, Aluminum plants and from other places of ECoR jurisdiction.

During the 2021-22 fiscal, in freight loading, ECoR is followed by South East Central Railway (SECR) with 212.37 MT and South Eastern Railway (SER) with 195 MT.

ECoR general manager Archana Joshi and principal chief operations manager, Pramod Kumar Jena congratulated the team involved in freight loading and appreciated their work.

Apart from freight, ECoR also ran 44 number of Oxygen Special Trains towards different destinations of the country during the Covid pandemic in short notice.