Cargo Breaking News
According to new data from Knight Frank India, India’s logistics landscape is undergoing a structural transformation with the country’s warehousing market recording a 42 per cent year-on-year (YoY) surge in leasing activity to 32.1 million sq ft in the first half of 2025. While this growth is a headline for property analysts, its real significance lies in how it strengthens the backbone of India’s supply chains — and by extension, its capacity to accelerate time-critical freight flows through the air cargo sector. The latest figures point to more than a cyclical rebound. They suggest that India’s industrial and logistics hubs are entering a phase of coordinated expansion, driven by manufacturing growth, technology-enabled Grade A facilities and the clustering of high-value industries around key airport gateways. Together, these trends are reshaping how air cargo operators can design, optimise and scale their networks. India’s logistics sector saw a 42 per cent YoY rise in H1 2025, driven by manufacturing clusters in Mumbai, Pune and Chennai, boosting high-value, time-sensitive shipments for pharmaceuticals, electronics and automotive exports. 63 per cent of new warehouse space meets Grade A standards, offering faster cargo build-up, automation readiness, compliance with international protocols and energy-efficient designs aligned with global ESG targets. Expanding third-party logistics and e-commerce operations leverage airport-adjacent warehouses, reducing first-mile transit, improving export cut-offs, and enabling co-location of bonded and cold-chain facilities for streamlined airfreight operations, the report added.
