<p>The South Central Railway has registered a milestone in its freight traffic business in the 2018-19 fiscal with its best ever annual performance.</p>.<p>The zone recorded the highest ever freight loading of 117.16 million tonnes (MTs) on Monday.</p>.<p>The earlier best freight loading performance of the SCR was in the financial year 2014-15, when the zone had transported 116.80 MTs of Goods.</p>.<p>According to a statement here, the SCR was a given a target of 111 MTs by the Railway Board to attain in the financial year 2018-19.</p>.<p>N Madhusudana Rao, Principal Chief Operations Manager, SCR envisaged an intensive action plan with a system in place to analyse the requirements of freight customers on an every day basis and positively respond to the same.</p>.<p>The best ever freight traffic record of SCR's achievement has been possible to a significant extent on account of the heavy rise in demand for coal from the power houses in the region.</p>.<p>The zone rose to the needs of one of the biggest coal enterprises in the country.</p>.<p>The Singareni Collieries Company Ltd (SCCL) and the Krishnapatnam Port Company Ltd (KPCL) have been helping the SCR in achieving the targets.</p>.<p>Among the other commodities which contributed to SCR's performance is cement, with the cement industry having a huge presence in the region served by SCR, giving it good business.</p>.<p>The outcome of this sizeable surge in freight traffic is the significant rise in freight earnings of SCR.</p>.<p>The freight earnings of the zone rose to Rs. 10745 crore in the current fiscal 2018-19 till March 18, 2019.</p>.<p>This is an increase of Rs 2414 crore over the previous financial year's freight revenue earnings of Rs. 8331.00 crore.</p>.<p>Gajanan Mallya, general manager, South Central Railway, has congratulated the entire team of the SCR.</p>
<p>The South Central Railway has registered a milestone in its freight traffic business in the 2018-19 fiscal with its best ever annual performance.</p>.<p>The zone recorded the highest ever freight loading of 117.16 million tonnes (MTs) on Monday.</p>.<p>The earlier best freight loading performance of the SCR was in the financial year 2014-15, when the zone had transported 116.80 MTs of Goods.</p>.<p>According to a statement here, the SCR was a given a target of 111 MTs by the Railway Board to attain in the financial year 2018-19.</p>.<p>N Madhusudana Rao, Principal Chief Operations Manager, SCR envisaged an intensive action plan with a system in place to analyse the requirements of freight customers on an every day basis and positively respond to the same.</p>.<p>The best ever freight traffic record of SCR's achievement has been possible to a significant extent on account of the heavy rise in demand for coal from the power houses in the region.</p>.<p>The zone rose to the needs of one of the biggest coal enterprises in the country.</p>.<p>The Singareni Collieries Company Ltd (SCCL) and the Krishnapatnam Port Company Ltd (KPCL) have been helping the SCR in achieving the targets.</p>.<p>Among the other commodities which contributed to SCR's performance is cement, with the cement industry having a huge presence in the region served by SCR, giving it good business.</p>.<p>The outcome of this sizeable surge in freight traffic is the significant rise in freight earnings of SCR.</p>.<p>The freight earnings of the zone rose to Rs. 10745 crore in the current fiscal 2018-19 till March 18, 2019.</p>.<p>This is an increase of Rs 2414 crore over the previous financial year's freight revenue earnings of Rs. 8331.00 crore.</p>.<p>Gajanan Mallya, general manager, South Central Railway, has congratulated the entire team of the SCR.</p>