Mangaluru International Airport to become first airport with Cargo terminal with private participation

MANGALURU: Mangaluru International Airport (MIA) is set to become the first among 22 airports in the country to operate the air cargo terminal with private participation.

Operations of the terminal would begin on June 26, airport director J T Radhakrishna said.

At present, domestic air cargo terminals were available in airports like Coimbatore, Lucknow and Jaipur besides the metro terminals. These were being managed by the Airports Authority of India (AAI), he said in a release here.

AAI had plan to run these air cargo terminals with private participation in 22 airports including Mangaluru, Ahmedabad, Tiruchirappalli and Visakhapatnam.

The tender process was going on in these places. However, Mangaluru emerged as the first among these airports in finalising the agency and obtaining security clearances from Bureau of Civil Aviation Security, New Delhi.

Several valuable goods, perishables, medicines, routine software parts, valuable, essential machinery parts can be sent by way of air cargo, from one airport to the other in the country through the terminal, Radhakrishna said.