Mumbai, Feb. 5 -- Indian Railways is scaling new heights in its freight business as seen from the stellar performance of January 2024.

For the month January, highest ever loading of 142.7 Million Tonnes has been recorded with a growth of 6.5% on year-on-year basis. Indian Railways is continuing to act as the backbone for transportation fuelling the core economic activities.

This record loading has been achieved along with higher number of capacity augmentation works facilitated in tandem. A total of 476km length of track was commissioned across 25 sections vis-a-vis 308km across 20 sections last year.

On cumulative basis from April 2023 - Jan 2024, freight loading of 1297.38 MT was achieved against last year's loading of 1243.46 MT, an...