Govt plans to develop air cargo terminal facilities

The Government plans to develop domestic air cargo infrastructure throughout the country.

After reviewing the functioning of Airports Authority of India, Ashok Lavasa, Secretary, Civil Aviation, said that the work for development of these facilities shall be in sync with the Government’s plan for development of air cargo facilities throughout the country and development of national logistics network for faster movement of cargo goods.

At the meeting AAI said it had recently set up a facility at Mangalore airport with an area of 1,400 sqm for international cargo and 1,100 sqm for domestic cargo thereby providing an annual holding capacity of 5,000 tonnes for international import cargo, 13000 tonnes for export cargo.

AAI also indicated that in all 24 airports have been identified for development of such domestic cargo terminals.

At present air cargo represents about 10 per cent of the airline industries’ revenues.