Cargo dwell time at airports to be reducued to 3 days

The Secretary, Ministry of Civil Aviation, Shri Ashok Chawla, yesterday announced that the free time given to exporters and importers as “dwell time” for their cargo at the airports would be reduced to 3 days from the existing 5 days. This policy would be implemented from 1st October 2007. In case of exports this would mean two days for the airlines and one day for the exporter.
This announcement was made during the fourth meeting of the ‘Civil Aviation Core Group’ (CACG), which is headed by the Secretary, Civil Aviation and has representatives from the various stakeholders of the Air Cargo Industry as well as representatives from Airports Authority of India, BCAS, Customs and the Ministry of Commerce. The CACG was formed to suggest ways to remove the bottlenecks for the growth of cargo industry.
An Inter-Ministerial Group (IMG) under the Chairmanship of Secretary, Ministry of Civil Aviation too has been constituted specifically to consider issues relating to dwell time at airports and the IMG has been meeting to consider issues relating policies, procedures and infrastructure to make recommendations on these issues.
17/08/07 Press Information Bureau (press release)

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Categories: Airports Aug 2007, Cargo Aug 2007