India: The South Central Railway (SCR) hopes to increase its cement loading capacity to 27.5Mt/yr in the current financial year. It has handled 20.5Mt in the nine months to the end of Dcember 2018, according to the Hindu newspaper. The cement industry represents the second largest freight segment for the Indian railway sector with a share of 23% of a capacity of 500Mt/yr for the 2017 – 2018 year.
