Bhubaneswar: East Coast Railway (ECoR) has surpassed all records of Indian Railways in freight loading in 2023-24 fiscal. By January 22, 2024, the zone loaded 202.111 million tons of freight, breaking the earlier record of highest freight loading of 191.39 MT loaded in last financial year.
With this, ECoR became the first railway zone to cross the milestone of 200 million tonne of loading for 5th time in a row. The three divisions of the ECoR have contributed greatly to the stupendous feat achieved by it, an ECoR release said on Tuesday.
During 2023-24 fiscal so far, ECoR has loaded 121.747 MT of coal, 10.65MT of raw materials to steel plants, 16.398 MT of pig iron & finished steel, 24.018 MT of iron ore, 1.192 MT of cement, 2.415 mt of food grains, 5.235 MT of fertilizers, 2.425 MT of mineral oil, 3.774 MT of freight in containers and 14.358 MT of other goods.
This remarkable loading has been achieved despite various challenges by remarkable performance of ECoR with proper planning and coordination with government sectors and Industries.
ECoR under the leadership of its General Manager Manoj Sharma achieved the remarkable feat. The General Manager has been instrumental by motivating its workforce right from the day one.
