Power crisis: Railway data say 498 rakes made available daily, only 417 being utilised by coal cosThe Railways said that on an average it has put into service 26,386 wagons on a daily basis this year so far for coal rakes, against 21,824...
11 May, 2022, 10.36 PM IST
Coal India Ltd posts 10.6% rise in coal output in July-September periodThe company’s coal production grew at 31.6% and off-take at 31.7%, highest ever in any September, an official statement said.
01 Oct, 2020, 02.56 PM IST
Railways boosts vehicles loading to raise modal freight shareIndian Railways has seen a significant increase in automobile loading over the last few months after it started working on opening new aven...
13 Sep, 2020, 11.40 PM IST
Indian Railways freight loading in July surpasses last year’s levelThe freight loading, though picked up in May and June, actually surpassed last year’s level on July 27 when it stood at 3.13 MT. A total of...
28 Jul, 2020, 08.39 PM IST
Captive plants ask railways to halt coal rakes during lockdownIndia’s captive generation capacity is about 50 GW, mainly in industries such base metals, chemicals, textiles, cement and paper. Shutdowns...
04 Apr, 2020, 03.06 PM IST
Ensuring uninterrupted supply of essential commodities: RailwaysDespite the coronavirus outbreak, the Indian Railways said it was ensuring uninterrupted supply of essential commodities across the country...
24 Mar, 2020, 03.57 PM IST
Coal India’s supplies up 8.1% in H1CIL supplied 232.21 million tonnes to power plants during the period, which was 21.11 million tonnes more coal compared to the previous cor...
03 Oct, 2018, 12.06 AM IST
CIL says coal supply to power plants up 15.1% in April-JulyThe increased supply was a result of higher rake loading to power sector which witnessed a growth of 12.5% during the period, an official s...
02 Aug, 2018, 05.08 PM IST
Coal India boosts supplies to power plants by 14% in AprilThe power, coal and railway ministries have taken a series of measures to improve coal supplies to power plants after electricity prices cr...
06 May, 2018, 12.39 PM IST
Coal India loads record 250 rakes on TuesdayIt is now targeting to load 266 rakes a day to achieve its targeted average loading of 250 rakes a day for the year.
15 Nov, 2017, 07.32 PM IST
CIL in talks with railways to hike rake loadingAt present, the state-run monopoly has been focusing on supplying coal to the power sector, which is struggling with dwindling stocks and f...
15 Nov, 2017, 12.49 AM IST
Private power plants to CIL: Increase supplies from Korba fields"Most of the Private Power plants are facing super-critical stock levels (for less than four days) and are being forced to reduce generatio...
29 Oct, 2017, 06.59 PM IST
Bhilai Steel records its best ever loading for dispatch to Indian RailwaysThe Plant loaded 27 rakes of 260 metre long rails from its Rail & Structural Mill (RSM) and Universal Rail Mill (URM) for despatch to India...
03 Jul, 2017, 06.54 PM IST
Coal India production grows 6.5 per cent in Feb to 54.3MTThe coal production increased by 10.78 million tonnes, or 2.3 per cent, during the first 11 months of the fiscal (April-February 2017) comp...
02 Mar, 2017, 04.51 PM IST
- Railways blame slowdown in economy to loss in frieght loading
Railways today blamed the slowdown in economy to a loss of about eight million tons of frieght loading between July and September this year.
29 Nov, 2012, 05.20 PM IST
- South Eastern Railway loaded 10.26 Million Tonnes of freight in May 2012
South Eastern Railway has loaded 10.26 Million Tonnes (mt) of freight in May 2012 against 9.71 mt in previous month of April 2012 -- a 6% r...
13 Jun, 2012, 07.24 PM IST
- Railways upset with NMDC, may transfer rakes to others
Railways has warned state-run NMDC Ltd to maintain its promised loading of rakes of iron ore else the capacity would be transferred to othe...
01 Oct, 2008, 02.11 PM IST