Pune: City airport director P S R K Sudhakar said that the customs department has granted an in-principle approval to the Airports Authority of India (AAI), Pune, for the custodianship of all in-bound and out-bound bonded (sealed) cargo, meant for movement from the airport.
However, the airport continues to grapple with an acute shortage of space required for storage of such bonded cargo and for creation of allied facilities, which would eventually enable movement of international air cargo from the airport, he said.
As of now, the airport is catering to domestic cargo movement while all international cargo is being moved through customs bonded trucks from the Inland Container Depot (ICD) at Dighi, located 15 km from the city along the Alandi road. It goes to the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust at Nhava Sheva near Mumbai.
International cargo movement from the airport is one of the long-pending demands by the city's corporate sector. There exists a vast potential for such cargo movement, considering that almost 40 % of the international freight moving out of the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), originates from Pune and adjoining districts.
"We are pursuing the matter of securing a 10-acre piece of land at a location in close proximity to the airport with the state government," Sudhakar told TOI recently. "We need this space not only for the cargo complex but also for setting up residential quarters for the AAI as well as the Central Industrial Security Forces (CISF) staff," he added.
10/05/11 Vishwas Kothari/Times of India
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