December 02, 2008
Indian Railway freight revenue up by 13.86% YoY in 2007-08
Indian Railways has generated INR 47558.78 crore revenue earnings from freight traffic during the fiscal 2007-08 up by 13.86% YoY as compared to INR 41768.35 crore during the 2006-07. It carried 794.21 million tonnes of freight traffic during fiscal 2007-08 up by 8.98% YoY as compared to 728.77 million tonnes.
The earnings from freight traffic during the month of March 2008 was INR 4856.96 crore up by 18.22% YoY as compared to INR 4108.37 crore during March 2007. It carried 78.48 million tonnes of freight traffic during March 2008 up by 8.35% YoY as compared to 72.43 million tonnes of freight traffic.
Details of total earnings during March 2008 are
| Item | Volume | Share | Earnings | Share |
| Coal | 33.14 | 42.23% | 1765.6 | 36.35% |
| Iron Ore | 13.44 | 17.13% | 856.96 | 17.64% |
| Cement | 7.69 | 9.80% | 401.69 | 8.27% |
| Food grains | 4.08 | 5.20% | 393.6 | 8.10% |
| Petroleum oil | 3.41 | 4.35% | 285.12 | 5.87% |
| Finished steel | 2.7 | 3.44% | 278.39 | 5.73% |
| Container service | 2.64 | 3.36% | 190.06 | 3.91% |
| Fertilizers | 2.45 | 3.12% | 162.88 | 3.35% |
| Other goods | 7.97 | 10.16% | 451.7 | 9.30% |
| Total | 78.48 | 4856.96 |
Volume in million tonnes
