The home air cargo services at the Vijayawada International Airport shall be soon dealt with by Indigo, one of many main home airways within the nation.
Due to numerous causes together with the change in sure guidelines following the instructions of the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security, the present handler of the Common User Domestic Cargo Terminal, Shreepa Logistics Pvt. Ltd is about to finish its contract by April 24. For the primary time, Shreepa Logistics began working the cargo terminal on August 1, 2018.
The outbound cargo services got here to a halt in January and the Airport Authority of India has roped in SpiceJet to make sure that the transport of perishable items comparable to shrimp will not be effected.
“SpiceJet will stop transporting shrimp from April 22 as the season ends. Indigo has bagged the contract to handle the cargo terminal and run outbound cargo services. Once the formalities are completed Indigo will start operating,” Vijayawada International Airport director M. Lakshmikanth Reddy advised The Hindu.
Due to the hindrances within the cargo services, the amount of freight dealt with by the airport got here down drastically to 1,209 metric tonnes in 2022-23 (up to February, 2023) in contrast to 2,264 metric tonnes dealt with in 2021-22 fiscal 12 months.
Shreepa Logistics managing director Kokali Venkata Rama Rao stated that they had withdrawn their services and the final working day can be April 24. He stated lack of cooperation from the airport authorities made them take the choice.
