‘We need AFS to make India global cargo hub’

I have been addressing the issue of developing and building Air Freight Stations (AFS) at various conventions in the last few years, but unfortunately, nothing has been done to resolve the issues,” said Vipin Vohra, Chairman, Continental Carriers. At the ongoing 46th edition of ACAAI convention in Bangkok Thailand, he spoke exclusively to CargoTalk and said, “The government had launched the policy for AFS in 2014 and mine was the first approved greenfield AFS in India in 2016, but unfortunately the terminal operators in India, they don’t want to create competitions, they want to create monopoly, also as we know that logistics cost is very high in India, they want to charge full TSP while not doing even 15 % of their job. 85% job will be done by AFS, even customs cost recovery will be done by the AFS operator, their job is only to take the cargo in ULD out from the trucks to the flights. why customers should pay twice? I have approached all the government bodies, but this issue is not being resolved. It was my father’s dream to build a greenfield AFS in India and I will continue to fight for this.”