Move to improve air cargo volume from Kovai

The trade and industry in Coimbatore, freight forwarders, and shipping agents held a meeting with the director
of the Airports Authority of India in Coimbatore on Tuesday to discuss ways to improve cargo movement from the Coimbatore International Airport.
R. Rajeshkumar, president of the Custom Broker & Shipping
Agents’ Association,
said the cargo facilitation committee meeting was held after six years. Air cargo movement from Coimbatore has huge potential for improvement.
Fly Dubai is ready to offer two-three chartered flights a week and is said to have sought details on export and import trade and potential.
“Exports by air have huge potential and data is available.
Most of it now goes through Kochi, Chennai, or Bengaluru. Similarly, imports happen through
other ports. We are trying to collect those details,”
he said.
With the high volume of export cargo generated from Tiruppur, Coimbatore,
Erode and the Nilgiris districts, the cargo potential of Coimbatore International Airport is huge.
The next meeting of the committee will be held in February to take forward measures to improve air cargo movement from here, he added.