Friday, August 17, 2018

Air cargo facility from Vizag mooted

Visakhapatnam: Due to lack of cargo flight facility from the Visakhapatnam airport, the exporters and importers of the state have been facing tough times and also losing money. Though the state has won the first position in ‘Ease of Doing Business’ among the 28 states in the country, the long-awaited cargo facility is not coming true.
At an average 2,200 tonnes of cargo per month is being shifted through air cargo from the neighbouring airports. The imports and exports are being transported through rail and road to the nearest airports in Hyderabad and Tamil Nadu.
The Andhra Pradesh Air Travelers Association (APATA), which is coordinating with the AAI and other trade bodies for the development of the flight connectivity from the Visakhapatnam airport.
Presently, domestic flights almost all the major cities in the country, and four international destinations of Singapore, Kualalumpur- Malaysia, Colombo-Sri Lanka and Dubai running from the airport with 2.5 million air passengers. Visakhapatnam airport is also the largest airport and handled about 60 per cent of air traffic in the state.
17/08/18 Hans India
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