Maligaon, September 9 (MExN): The Northeast Frontier Railway has managed to maintain “high momentum of goods transportation” and unloaded 1019 freight carrying trains in August, 2021.
This is 13.6% increase from corresponding period last year when 897 freight carrying trains were unloaded, informed a press release from the NFR Chief Public Relations Officer, Guneet Kaur.
It is keeping the economy moving and meeting the requirement of essential and other commodities, it maintained.
From January to August 2021, the NFR carried 8737 rakes of freight trains and unloaded them in different goods sheds in its jurisdiction, it added.
Goods like FCI rice, sugar, salt, edible oil, POL, food grains, fertilizer, cement, stone chips, iron/steel, onion, maize, auto, container and other items were transported during the process.
Out of the total in August, 526 rakes were unloaded in Assam, 85 in Tripura, 31 in Nagaland, 10 in Manipur, 4 in Arunachal Pradesh and 4 in Mizoram, the release said.
A total of 211 freight rakes in West Bengal and 148 freight rakes in Bihar were also unloaded during last month within the jurisdiction of NFR.
