RailEnquiry

Business Line reported that East Central Railway has posted a 8.29% growth in originating freight traffic in 2012-13 at 102.53 million tonnes over 94.68 million tonnes in 2011-12.Coal accounts for the largest share of traffic at more than 90%. During the period under review, coal throughput was 93.34 million tonnes up from 86.2 million tonnes in the previous year.ECR sources attribute it to improved loading at mines under all the three coal companies served by it. Thus, loading at Central Coalfields Ltd’s mines was 41.51 million tonnes, compared to 37.34 in 2011-12. The corresponding figures for other coal companies were: Northern Coalfields Ltd 27.43 million tonnes (25.68 million tonnes) and Bharat Coking Coal Ltd 18.5 million tonnes (17.12 million tonnes).Besides, coal loading at West Bokaro mines belonging to Tata Steel, Chasnala mines belonging to IISCO also showed improvement. Loading of maize showed significant improvement at 388 rakes totalling 1.6 million tonnes.