INDIA HAS BECOME WORLD'S SECOND LARGEST RAIL FREIGHT CARRIER
Indian Railways has surged past the US and Russia in freight movement. This is driven by the Dedicated Freight Corridors and record wagon production. A once-slow, congested network is now powering a quiet logistics revolution across the country.
In 2024-25, China topped the charts by transporting roughly 4,000 million metric tonnes of cargo, followed by India with a rail freight movement of 4,000 million metric tonnes. While the United States transported 1,500 million metric tonnes, and Russia handled 1,100 million metric tonnes over the same period.
Several factors have driven India’s rapid rise in rail freight, with the implementation of Dedicated Freight Corridors playing a central role. Stocks that stand to benefit from this increase in rail freight are