INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Indian trains' freight loading rose throughout September 2021Indian Railways' freight packing experienced a 3.6 per cent increase in
September 2021 as it stood at 106 million tonnes against 102.3 million tonnes of the corresponding duration last year.Also Railways earned
Rs 10,815 crores from freight loading in September 2021, which was 9 per cent more than the freight loading earning tape-recorded throughout
the matching period of in 2015, when it had stood at Rs 9,905 crore.Out of the 106 million tonnes of freight filling tape-recorded in
September 2021 by Indian Trains, coal consisted a huge part of it as dry fuel comprised of 47 million tonnes of the total freight loading.It
was followed by iron ore (11 million tonnes), food grains (6.4 million tonnes), cement (6.1 million tonnes), fertilisers (4.1 million
tonnes) and 3.6 million tonnes of mineral oils.
