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New Delhi, Aug 11

Indian Railways carried 270.69 million tonne (mt) of freight traffic during April-July period this fiscal, up 9.42 per cent against the 247.39 mt carried in the same period last fiscal. The loadings volume growth rate, is however, lower than the corresponding growth rate of 24.68 per cent registered in earnings from freight. This difference in growth rates, to some extent, is on account of various rounds of upward revision of rail freight charges during the last one year. The total goods earnings were at Rs 18,187.71 crore (Rs 14,587.55 crore). During July 2008, the revenue earning freight traffic carried by Indian Railways was 67.69 mt, informed an official statement. There is an increase of 5.81 mt over the actual freight traffic of 61.88 mt carried by the Railways during the same period last year, an increase of 9.39 per cent.

—Our Bureau

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