Madhya Pradesh government may use public private partnership (PPP) model to set up an air cargo hub either at Bhopal or at Indore on over 500 hectare.
It is learnt that the state government has identified land close to the existing airports for the proposed project.
In another related development, a new air cargo complex spread over 58,000 sq m in Chennai is awaiting the commissioning. The new facility, to be complete with automatic storage and retrieval system, is expected to handle 60,000 tonne annually, up from the present 25,000 tonne or so.
The jump in present capacity, it is hoped, will help serve more carriers, including exclusive freighters better. The new complexes will certainly address the vexed issue of warehousing capacity constraint.
But experts feel that unless other issues like the seamless inter-modal connectivity, standardisation and rationalisation of processes and procedures also receive due attention, mere construction of some buildings and installation of some equipment will not yield the desired benefits.
Meanwhile, it is worth mentioning that government plans to set up a huge multimodal cargo hub at Nagpur.
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