Achieves 250 MT freight loading, Highest ever by any zone in the country

East Coast Railway has surpassed all records of Indian Railways in Freight Loading in the Financial Year 2023-24.

As per an official press release from East coast railways it loaded 250 million tons of freight from 1st April, 2023 to 25th March, 2024 thereby shattering the earlier record of highest Freight Loading in 2022-23 fiscal.

ECoR under the leadership of its General Manager Mr Manoj Sharma has also become the 1st Zone to cross the Milestone of 200 Million Tonne of loading for 5th time in a row.

East Coast Railway was the Second Railway Zone after undivided South Eastern Railway to load 200 MT in the financial year 2019-20. It has now become the first zone to cross 250 MT of freight.

During the financial year 2023-24, East Coast Railway loaded 149.50 MT of Coal, 12.9MT of Raw Materials to Steel Plants, 20.15 MT of Steel & Slag, 37.4 MT of Iron Ore, 1.21 MT of Cement, 3.16 MT of Food Grains, 6.4 MT of Fertilizers, 3.0 MT of Mineral Oil, 23.27 MT of freight in Containers and other goods. This is 6% more than the corresponding period of last year.

The three divisions of the ECoR contributed greatly to the stupendous feat achieved by it.

The Khurda Road Division of ECoR contributed 156.17 million ton followed by 74.66 million ton by Waltair Division and 19.20 million ton by Sambalpur Division.

All the three Divisions have performed better than previous year and surpassed their last year loading figure said the release.

The coalfields of MCL at Talcher, five ports in ECoR jurisdiction, i.e. Paradeep, Dhamara, Vizag, Gangavaram & Gopalpur; iron ore mines in Bailadila in Chhattisgarh, Major Steel & Aluminium Companies, iron ore mines in Keonjhar District were the major contributors in this achievements.