Transshipment hubs required to achieve growth: Jyotiraditya Scindia

While addressing the Air Cargo Forum India (ACFI) Annual Event in New Delhi on Tuesday, titled as, ‘10 million: Vision 2030, Stimulating, Scaling and Steering Air Cargo,’ the Minister of Civil Aviation, Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia, said, “The growth potential for air cargo in India is tremendous. Today, we are close to 3.1 million metric tonnes, and we have set this highly ambitious target to reach 10 million metric tonnes by 2030. This is possible only if we put the right strategies in place – use both widebody aircraft and smaller aircraft to move cargo from tier 2 and tier 3 cities, develop a hub and spoke arrangement and build transhipment hubs across India then it is certain that India will emerge as a global cargo player.” The minister also added that the industry needs to be ready to accept the changes that are going to come in the industry in the coming years and the industry should also be ready to be able to cater to the market demand that needs to be looked in.” Other dignitaries who also graced the occasion included Piyush Srivastava, Senior Economic Advisor – Ministry of Civil Aviation, Yashpal Sharma, MD, Skyways, Cyrus Katgara, Partner Jeena and Company and President, ACFI, Sanjiv Edward, CCO, DIAL, Kamesh Peri, CEO, Celebi Aviation Holding amongst others.