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title: "Where India's goods move: state-to-state road freight flows, FY2025-26 · SSL"
description: "A state-by-state map of 5.13 lakh road consignments carrying ₹11,059 Cr of declared goods value in FY2025-26."
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SSL Research · September 2026

# Where India's goods move: state-to-state road freight flows, FY2025-26

A state-by-state map of 5.13 lakh road consignments carrying ₹11,059 Cr of declared goods value in FY2025-26. Maharashtra shipped 40% of the value, Jharkhand received 42% of the consignments, and 91% of the value crossed a state border.

**By**: SSL Research Desk

**Published**: September 2026

**Charts**: 2, each with its table

## The numbers

| Measure | FY2025-26 |
| --- | --- |
| Consignments (de-duplicated) | 513,216 |
| Declared goods value | ₹11,059 Cr |
| Charged weight (cleaned) | 6.70 lakh tonnes |
| Origin states | 17 |
| Destinations | 36 states, UTs and export destinations |
| State pairs with traffic | 317 |
| Share of goods value that crossed a state border | 91.3% |

India publishes excellent data on rail freight and port cargo. For road freight, which moves most of the country’s goods, there is very little public origin-to-destination data. This note publishes one: a state-to-state matrix of 513,216 consignments booked by Safe & Secure Logistics (SSL) in FY2025-26 (April 2025 to March 2026). For each corridor it gives three measures: declared goods value, tonnes, and the number of consignments.

Together these consignments carried **₹11,059 Cr of declared goods value** from 17 origin states to 32 Indian states and union territories, plus Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh.

## The corridors that matter

**By declared goods value**

| Corridor | Consignments | Goods value (₹ Cr) | Tonnes | FTL share of consignments |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Maharashtra → Gujarat | 3,834 | 1,228.7 | 30,850 | 99.5% |
| Maharashtra → Jharkhand | 63,720 | 1,000.6 | 51,216 | 3.5% |
| Jharkhand → West Bengal | 8,571 | 583.3 | 47,513 | 96.5% |
| Gujarat → Jharkhand | 87,569 | 438.2 | 11,473 | 0.1% |
| Maharashtra → Uttar Pradesh | 27,101 | 436.2 | 22,973 | 5.6% |
| Gujarat → Maharashtra | 3,246 | 388.1 | 22,294 | 99.7% |
| Maharashtra → Karnataka | 1,052 | 344.5 | 9,544 | 99.6% |
| Maharashtra → Maharashtra | 4,850 | 289.7 | 32,029 | 94.4% |
| Gujarat → Uttar Pradesh | 57,465 | 289.0 | 5,913 | 0.2% |
| Haryana → Jharkhand | 20,382 | 279.4 | 10,703 | 0.8% |

The ten corridors above carry 47.7% of all declared value. They come in two very different kinds.

**High-count, parcel corridors.** Gujarat → Jharkhand (87,569 consignments), Gujarat → Uttar Pradesh (57,465) and Gujarat → Bihar (57,110) are almost entirely part-truckload. Each has a median shipment of 60-65 kg worth about ₹30,000-38,000. This is the merchandise trade from western India’s trading and manufacturing towns to the consumer markets of the Gangetic east.

Chart 1 The 15 largest state-to-state corridors by goods value (₹ Cr)

**Show the data table (15 rows)**

| Origin state | Destination state | Consignments | Goods value Cr |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| MAHARASHTRA | GUJARAT | 3,834 | 1,228.7 |
| MAHARASHTRA | JHARKHAND | 63,720 | 1,000.6 |
| JHARKHAND | WEST BENGAL | 8,571 | 583.3 |
| GUJARAT | JHARKHAND | 87,569 | 438.2 |
| MAHARASHTRA | UTTAR PRADESH | 27,101 | 436.2 |
| GUJARAT | MAHARASHTRA | 3,246 | 388.1 |
| MAHARASHTRA | KARNATAKA | 1,052 | 344.5 |
| MAHARASHTRA | MAHARASHTRA | 4,850 | 289.7 |
| GUJARAT | UTTAR PRADESH | 57,465 | 289 |
| HARYANA | JHARKHAND | 20,382 | 279.4 |
| TAMIL NADU | GUJARAT | 399 | 276.2 |
| HARYANA | UTTAR PRADESH | 7,180 | 241.9 |
| HARYANA | HARYANA | 9,912 | 231.2 |
| GUJARAT | BIHAR | 57,110 | 223.1 |
| HARYANA | MAHARASHTRA | 674 | 208.1 |

Source: SSL Research Desk, Safe & Secure Logistics operating data. [Download CSV (317 rows)](https://safeandsecure.in/research/india-state-to-state-freight-flows-fy2026/corridors.csv)

## Who ships, who receives

| State | Out: consignments | Out: ₹ Cr | In: consignments | In: ₹ Cr | Net inflow ₹ Cr |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Maharashtra | 108,605 | 4,449.5 | 10,680 | 1,230.0 | −3,219.5 |
| Jharkhand | 13,727 | 942.5 | 214,275 | 2,332.5 | +1,390.0 |
| Gujarat | 207,548 | 1,472.7 | 6,048 | 1,712.5 | +239.9 |
| Haryana | 53,202 | 1,568.4 | 16,383 | 580.4 | −987.9 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 63,181 | 425.6 | 150,216 | 1,280.9 | +855.3 |
| West Bengal | 5,744 | 356.2 | 12,029 | 953.9 | +597.7 |
| Bihar | 1,070 | 20.9 | 64,501 | 403.9 | +383.0 |

Three patterns stand out.

1. **Maharashtra is the value engine.** It originated ₹4,450 Cr, or 40% of all declared goods value, and received just over a quarter of that back. It is the largest net exporter of goods by value in the dataset.
2. **Gujarat is the volume engine.** It originated 207,548 consignments, 40% of the total, but at a low value per shipment. In value terms it is roughly balanced (₹1,473 Cr out, ₹1,713 Cr in) because it also receives high-value full-truckload inbound from Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu.
3. **The east is the destination.** Jharkhand received 214,275 consignments (42% of the total), Uttar Pradesh 150,216 and Bihar 64,501. Together that is 84% of all consignments, but only 36% of the goods value. The industrial cluster around Jamshedpur draws in engineering inputs from Pune, Faridabad and Ludhiana. Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh draw in consumer merchandise from Gujarat.

Chart 2 Net inflow of goods value by state (₹ Cr)

**Show the data table (16 rows)**

| State | Net inflow goods value Cr |
| --- | --- |
| JHARKHAND | 1,390 |
| UTTAR PRADESH | 855.3 |
| WEST BENGAL | 597.7 |
| BIHAR | 383 |
| KARNATAKA | 284.7 |
| GUJARAT | 239.9 |
| ANDHRA PRADESH | 181.8 |
| ODISHA | 174.1 |
| RAJASTHAN | 165.9 |
| ASSAM | 139.1 |
| CHHATTISGARH | 111.6 |
| HIMACHAL PRADESH | 106.4 |
| TAMIL NADU | -265.4 |
| PUNJAB | -320.9 |
| HARYANA | -987.9 |
| MAHARASHTRA | -3,219.5 |

Source: SSL Research Desk, Safe & Secure Logistics operating data. [Download CSV (36 rows)](https://safeandsecure.in/research/india-state-to-state-freight-flows-fy2026/states.csv)

## What this means

## Quotable findings

Free to quote with attribution to Safe & Secure Logistics (SSL Research Desk).

1. > Maharashtra originated ₹4,450 Cr, or 40%, of the ₹11,059 Cr of goods that Safe & Secure Logistics moved by road in FY2025-26, making it the largest net shipper of goods value in the network (SSL Research Desk, 2026).
2. > Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar received 84% of Safe & Secure Logistics’ 513,216 road consignments in FY2025-26 but only 36% of their declared goods value, which reflects a west-to-east flow of low-value parcels.
3. > 91% of the declared value of road freight booked by Safe & Secure Logistics in FY2025-26 crossed at least one Indian state border, according to the SSL Research Desk.

## Methodology and limitations

### Data

SSL consignment register FY2025-26 (1 Apr 2025 to 31 Mar 2026), 515,860 rows de-duplicated to 513,216 consignments; 317 origin-destination state pairs. Chart data: data/india-state-to-state-freight-flows-fy2026.json

### Method

Booking state to delivery state, with state names normalised for spelling. Goods value is the declared invoice value, excluding one consignment above ₹25 Cr. Tonnes use charged weight, excluding 37 consignments above 50 t. Full SQL: data/india-state-to-state-freight-flows-fy2026.sql

### Limitations

This is one carrier's network, not national freight. Full-truckload bookings were under-recorded from April to July 2025, so FTL-heavy corridors are understated for those months. 21,572 consignments carry a placeholder weight of 1 kg or less, which understates tonnes on some FTL corridors. Goods value is as declared by the shipper.

**Full data-quality notes**

- **Source.** SSL consignment register, bookings 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026. There are 515,860 rows. **2,644 duplicate consignment numbers** were removed (the latest entry is kept), leaving 513,216 consignments.
- **Goods value.** Declared invoice value. **One consignment declared at ₹376 Cr** is a data-entry error and is excluded, as is anything above ₹25 Cr on a single consignment. Excluding it brings the total from ₹11,436 Cr to ₹11,059 Cr.
- **Tonnes.** Charged weight, excluding **37 consignments above 50 t** (beyond any legal Indian truck payload). One of these records 174,661 t. The cleaned total is 6.70 lakh tonnes; the raw sum is 8.58 lakh. Separately, 21,572 consignments carry a placeholder weight of 1 kg or less. They are counted, but they understate tonnes on corridors such as Haryana → Uttar Pradesh.
- **Capture.** Full-truckload bookings were recorded in this register at about 1,000-1,900 a month from April to July 2025 and at 10,000-13,000 a month from August 2025. Full-truckload-heavy corridors are therefore understated for the first four months.
- **States.** Spelling variants are merged (Orissa/Orrisa → Odisha; Uttrakhand/Uttranchal → Uttarakhand; Jammu & Kashmir → Jammu and Kashmir). Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh are shown as export destinations.
- No shipper, consignee or party identities are used or published.

Full SQL: available to researchers on request. All 317 corridors: [`data/india-state-to-state-freight-flows-fy2026.json`](https://safeandsecure.in/research/india-state-to-state-freight-flows-fy2026/data.json).

Privacy: no customer, consignor, consignee, supplier, broker, driver or vehicle is identified. Places are city-level.

## Download the data

- [Everything, JSON chart specs + 3 datasets](https://safeandsecure.in/research/india-state-to-state-freight-flows-fy2026/data.json)
- [scope.csv 1 rows](https://safeandsecure.in/research/india-state-to-state-freight-flows-fy2026/scope.csv)
- [corridors.csv 317 rows](https://safeandsecure.in/research/india-state-to-state-freight-flows-fy2026/corridors.csv)
- [states.csv 36 rows](https://safeandsecure.in/research/india-state-to-state-freight-flows-fy2026/states.csv)

Licence: free to quote and chart with attribution to Safe & Secure Logistics (SSL Research Desk).

## How to cite

**APA:** SSL Research Desk. (2026, September). *Where India’s goods move: State-to-state road freight flows, FY2025-26* (Research note). Safe & Secure Logistics. [https://safeandsecure.in/research/india-state-to-state-freight-flows-fy2026/](https://safeandsecure.in/research/india-state-to-state-freight-flows-fy2026/)

**Plain:** Source: Safe & Secure Logistics (SSL Research Desk), state-to-state freight flows FY2025-26, 513,216 consignments worth ₹11,059 Cr.

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