Northeast Frontier Railway registers 19.10% growth in freight unloading

Dimapur, March 14 (EMN): Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) carried 12, 408 rakes of freight trains from April, 2021 to February, 2022, an increase of 19.10% from 10, 419 rakes the previous year.

NFR transported goods like FCI rice, sugar, potato, salt, edible oil, POL, food grains, fertilizer, cement, stone chips, iron/steel, coal, maize, auto, container and other items to different goods sheds in its jurisdiction during this period, a press release informed.

In February 2022, 625 rakes of freight were unloaded in Assam out of which 333 were loaded with essential commodities. 132 rakes in Tripura, 25 rakes in Nagaland, four rakes in Manipur, six rakes in Arunachal Pradesh and five rakes in Mizoram were unloaded during the month.