Dedicated Freight Corridor Posts 47% Rise in Train Trips in 2024-25

Of the total trips in 2024-25, container products accounted for 24%, coal for 19%, and miscellaneous items for 11%, topping the list of commodities transported on both corridors

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NEW DELHI: The Eastern and Western freight corridors have jointly recorded a 47 percent increase in freight train operations, with the number of train trips rising from 88,225 in 2023-24 to 1,30,116 in 2024-25, officials said.

However, vacant train trips were about 34 percent of the total trips in 2024-25, they said, adding that mostly coal and cement wagons return vacant as it is not possible to use these wagons for other products.

Of the total trips in 2024-25, container products accounted for 24 percent, coal for 19 percent, and miscellaneous items for 11 percent, topping the list of commodities transported on both corridors. Other commodities, such as cement and clinker, iron and steel, foodgrains, fertilizer, and POL (Petroleum, Oil, and Lubricants), varied between 1 and 4 percent.