Pakistan Railways policy of paying due attention to freight services and diversification of this sector, has started yielding results with freight earnings showing remarkable increase as compared to last year. Additional General Manager (Freight) Khawaja Nazir talking to APP here on Friday, said "We earned Rs 4,338 million during the first ten months of the current fiscal, compared to Rs 3,515 million earned during the corresponding period last year, showing an increase of 23 percents"
He said the policy of diversification in the freight sector and induction of modern fast-moving Chinese coaches has helped to attract private parties for transportation of their consignments.
"Pakistan Railways decided to go for transportation of non-traditional goods including edible oil, chemicals, coal etc, as it experienced considerable reduction in earnings from transportation of petroleum products, with a majority of the country's industries switching to other energy sources like natural gas, electricity, coal etc," he said. The diversification policy is not yet fully mature, he observed.
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