The Hindu Business Line : SECR handles 74.7 mt originating freight in April-Oct

Kolkata, Nov. 5 South East Central Railway (SECR), the country’s largest freight loading zonal railway, handled an originating freight traffic of 74.70 million tonnes (mt) between April and October 2008, up by 6.13 mt or nearly 10 per cent over the traffic handled in the same period last year.

“The shortfall from the target so far (on a pro-rata basis) is marginal and we’re confident of making it up during the remainder of the current fiscal,” said an SECR spokesman.

SECR, as he pointed out, had been given a freight traffic target of 133.5 mt for 2008-09 as against 121.5 mt handled in 2007-08.

Coal comprised more than 80 per cent of SECR’s total freight traffic and in the first seven months of the current fiscal, coal traffic throughput was 55.76 mt (50.06 mt in the same period of last year), thus representing around 10 per cent growth.

In October 2008, total originating freight loading was 11.35 mt, which was approximately one mt more than that in the same month last year. Also, the average loading of 5,517 wagons per day was 395 wagons more than that in the same month last year.

SECR achieved higher coal loading, with 34.4 rakes per day at Korba and 19.8 rakes per day at Ib Valley, surpassing the previous record of 33.6 rakes a day at Korba in September this year and 19.3 rakes a day at Ib in June this year, the spokesman added.

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SECR handles 74.7 mt originating freight in April-Oct