The South Western Railway has recorded a surge in freight operations and loading since the last few months and it hit a new high in October.
A release said after a relative slowdown during the first four months of the lockdown necessitated due to pandemic, freight loading has picked up in SWR consistently from August 2020 and the zone has steadily loaded over 3.0 million tonnes every month since then.
“After the setting up of the Business Development Units (BDU) on SWR both at the zonal and divisional levels in April 2020, the freight loading has picked up. A slew of freight incentive schemes and concessions were announced to give boost to freight loading and attract customers to use Railways as their preferred mode of transport of goods and to bring more and more commodities into the freight basket of Railways’’, the release added.
During this financial year, SWR has loaded…