Bhubaneswar: The East Coast Railway Friday said it has achieved 232.13 million tonne of freight loading, the highest-ever figure in the Indian Railways, in the 2021-22 financial year, registering a growth of 13.28 per cent over the previous fiscal.
The ECoR has been securing the top position in freight loading for the past four years.
It also earned Rs 23,012 crore from freight traffic, the highest for the national transporter, the ECoR said in a statement.
“This was possible due to outstanding performance of all the three divisions — Khurda Road, Waltair and Sambalpur,” it said, adding that round-the-clock monitoring aided in the achievement.
It had supplied 205 mt of freight in the 2020-21 financial year, the ECoR statement said.
In the previous fiscal, the zonal railway’s freight loading was followed by the South East Central Railway with 212 mt and the South Eastern Railway with 195 mt.
The Bhubaneswar-headquartered ECoR has run 44 oxygen special trains to various parts of the country, amid an unprecedented crisis during the second coronavirus wave.
The ECoR came into existence on April 1, 2003, and its jurisdiction encompasses all parts of Odisha along with a few districts of Andhra Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.
PTI
