Sealdah division ups its freight performance, registers 24 pc+ growth

The Sealdah Division, while achieving a significant success in passenger carrying in suburban and mail/express trains, has touched another milestone in 2025.

The division reached the mark of Rs 180 crore in freight earnings between April and 22 December, 2025, a number much higher than the corresponding period of 2024.

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While being perceived as a passenger carrying divisional railway mainly, the Sealdah Division is now also eying for improvements in freight earnings of late. The division is said to have fetched Rs 180 crore by carrying goods which is Rs 50 crore more than that earned between April and 22 December, 2024. In 2024 during the period, the division achieved a freight loading of 1.126 MT while in 2025 during the same period, the division touched freight loading of 1.404 MT registering a growth of 24.62 per cent.

Sealdah Division draws its freight earnings largely from containers involving the Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port. According to official sources, jute exports through containers have seen a significant rise to states including Punjab and Gurjarat. “Also, all the goods sent to Nepal via Birgunj have also seen a rise,” informed the senior divisional operations manager, Pankaj Yadav. Apart from this, the tiles coming to West Bengal from states like Rajasthan and Gujarat are also being brought through containers that have seen a significant growth in the recent past,” added Mr Yadav.

Not only limiting its resources to these commodities, Sealdah Division has touched a milestone in yet another field of freight maximising the use of its fleet of 42 wagons. The division has witnessed growth in a relatively new area of freight of organic fertilisers from Chitpur station and Titagarh. “Organic fertilisers are being transported from this part of West Bengal to other places like Dalkhola, Falakata Purnia, Chhapara and so on. Sometimes it is also sent to Kharagpur, Cossimbazar and Malda. But mostly these organic fertilisers are sent to part of the North Frontier Railway. The main commodities of freight earnings in Sealdah are attributed to jute and organic fertilizers,” elaborated the official.

Apart from organic fertilisers, Chitpur is also being utilised for unloading of automobiles by the division.