East Coast Railway (ECoR) has carried 16.37 million tonne of freight in the month of October 2020 which is highest loading for the current fiscal year to date.
ECoR has carried 0.97MT more freight in October, 2020 a growth of 6.29 per cent over October, 2019, when it carried 15.40MT.
For the April-October period of 2020 ECoR carried 104.88 MT of freight. This include 59.63MT of Coal, 13.38MT of Iron Ore, 8.84mt of Iron & Steel, 3.98mt of raw materials for Steel Plants, 3.61mt of fertilizer, 1.65mt of container, 1.43mt of food grains, 1.39mt of Petroleum Products and 10.97mt of other commodities.
Due to the efforts of Business Development Unit of ECoR, 12 rakes of Fly Ash ( raw material for cement plants ) has been transported to different States.
To achieve this loading figure, East Coast Railway has utilised 7942 wagons per day in the month of October, 2020 only and 7391 wagons per day up to October, 2020 of the current financial year.
