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India's cool chain facility opens at Bangalore's Kempegowda airport
BANGALORE's (aka Bengalura) Kempegowda International Airport has become the home to the first on-site perishable cargo-handling centre in India.
Covering an area measuring 118,000 square feet, the facility operated by Air India SATS Airport Services Pvt. Ltd (AISATS) has the capacity to handle 40,000 tons of perishable commodities a year.
The centre that started operations on October 1 is designed to handle pharmaceutical products, fruit, vegetables, poultry, seafood and flowers. It will have 17 dedicated cold rooms with temperatures ranging from minus 13 degrees Fahrenheit to 77 degrees F, reported Newport, California's Global Trade Magazine.
On the first day of trial operations, AISATS COOLPORT accepted 25 tons of pharmaceutical shipments for carriage on board Cathay Pacific, Dragonair, Malaysia Airlines and Singapore Airlines. The shipments came from freight forwarders Expeditors International, Hellmann Worldwide Logistics, and Kuehne + Nagel.
According to a statement from AISATS, the centre will house a drug controller lab, as well as a plant quarantine inspection and certification office. COOLPORT will also be supplemented by temperature-controlled queue lanes for unitised shipments and cool trolleys to ensure integrity of the cool chain from the facility to the aircraft and vice versa.
"The Indian economy is on a high trajectory of growth and requires upgraded infrastructure facilities in the logistics space to cater to the growing needs of the trade and the air cargo industry," said AISATS chief executive Mike Chew.
"Keeping in view the significance of air cargo to the economic growth of the country, we believe that this dedicated facility will play a vital role in supporting better trade facilitation, and will further boost the exports and imports of temperature sensitive products," he added.
Covering an area measuring 118,000 square feet, the facility operated by Air India SATS Airport Services Pvt. Ltd (AISATS) has the capacity to handle 40,000 tons of perishable commodities a year.
The centre that started operations on October 1 is designed to handle pharmaceutical products, fruit, vegetables, poultry, seafood and flowers. It will have 17 dedicated cold rooms with temperatures ranging from minus 13 degrees Fahrenheit to 77 degrees F, reported Newport, California's Global Trade Magazine.
On the first day of trial operations, AISATS COOLPORT accepted 25 tons of pharmaceutical shipments for carriage on board Cathay Pacific, Dragonair, Malaysia Airlines and Singapore Airlines. The shipments came from freight forwarders Expeditors International, Hellmann Worldwide Logistics, and Kuehne + Nagel.
According to a statement from AISATS, the centre will house a drug controller lab, as well as a plant quarantine inspection and certification office. COOLPORT will also be supplemented by temperature-controlled queue lanes for unitised shipments and cool trolleys to ensure integrity of the cool chain from the facility to the aircraft and vice versa.
"The Indian economy is on a high trajectory of growth and requires upgraded infrastructure facilities in the logistics space to cater to the growing needs of the trade and the air cargo industry," said AISATS chief executive Mike Chew.
"Keeping in view the significance of air cargo to the economic growth of the country, we believe that this dedicated facility will play a vital role in supporting better trade facilitation, and will further boost the exports and imports of temperature sensitive products," he added.
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