The ministry established a stricter unified dispatcher control system at all the units from the outset of the year and ensured the promptness, correctness, smoothness and safety of railway transport.

A rational transport plan for the unified use of rolling stocks was worked out, and progress was made in establishing an integrated transport management system to organize and control transport in a scientific way, thus improving the technical indices of railway operation.

The railway modernization was pushed forward with to improve the passing capacity.

Engineers of Kaechon, Pyongyang and Chongjin railway bureaus conducted a dynamic drive for extra-haulage on schedule without accident and carried a larger amount of freight than planned every day to satisfy the demand for transport.

Signal progress was also made in the work to readjust and reinforce the railway transport sector.

The Kim Jong Thae Electric Locomotive Complex made innovations in the production of new-type carriages and the repair of locomotives by pushing ahead with the modernization of machine tools.

Workers and technicians at the Wonsan Rolling-Stock Factory registered the highest results in the production of wagons.

Similar successes were witnessed at the Rahung Railway Factory, the Ryongsong Bearing Factory and the Hamhung Railway Bureau.

Meanwhile, scientists and technicians made it possible to modernize passenger cars and introduce on an expansive basis Korean-style electric locomotives with high traction capability and operation control performance.