Auto business revs up air cargo movement

International cargo movement to and from Calcutta airport has increased by around 25 per cent in the past year, prompting foreign airlines to add more freighters on certain routes.
“There has been a 25 per cent growth in international cargo movement to and from Calcutta airport and a 15 per cent increase in outward transit. Automobile parts accounted for the bulk of the growth in the movement of cargo from the city to other countries,” a senior official of the Airports Authority of India said.
Singapore Airlines has already added another freighter to the Calcutta-Amsterdam route and a weekly cargo service to Brussels was inaugurated this week.
“Movement of auto parts from the factories in Jamshedpur to Japan and Korea has driven our growth,” said Amin Khan, the manager of Singapore Airlines’ cargo division in eastern India.
An official of TKM, the logistics handling unit of Tata factories, said more than 100 tonnes of raw materials, mainly steel sheets, had been sent to Japan and Korea by air and ship in the past three months . “These raw materials are moulded at the factories there and the finished products are sent back.”
18/09/08 The Telegraph

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