‘Build air cargo infrastructure to make India cargo hub’

“With the government’s Make in India program, & PLI schemes, there has been a huge push to make sure that there is a sizable increase in the production capacity out of India. We are trying to make India one of the factories of the world and for that, we need to create a larger logistics infra and air cargo must be part of it,” says Yashpal Sharma, President, ACFI and Managing Director, Skyways Group, at a curtain raiser event organised ahead of ACFI’s annual conclave on July 4 in New Delhi. He adds, “Air cargo ecosystem also needs to spread across the country. Under the Udaan scheme, government has rolled out various regional airports.  Over the last 10 years, we’ve seen a huge increase in the number of airports that are functioning in the country. And as these airports grow, it is important that each one of these airports are also looked at from an individual perspective. And their entire ecosystem is also built, which is in line with what the customer needs. So ACFI has been opening these regional chapters to address absolute local micro-level pain points and also share practices with each other, so that we are able to bring them to the standards that the customer needs from around the world.”