‘NMIA must conduct trial run of freighters to identify bottlenecks’

Sunil Kohli, Managing Director, Rahat Cargo said, “As per reports, NMIA proposes to implement a state-of-the-art Cargo Management System with real time tracking, transparency and automated truck slot management process to avoid congestion and to further reduce dwell time for vehicles apart from introducing paperless transactions. These moves undoubtedly are welcome steps to facilitate cargo movement from to-be-commissioned NMIA. However, as per trade whispers, the infrastructural facilities there are yet to get fully operational and hence there remain apprehensions among the trade whether seamless functions relating to freighter operations effective August 16 2025 would actually be possible. It would have been desirable to conduct a trial run of the freighters well before to identify the emerging bottlenecks with a view to have their corrections before the effective date of full-fledged freight operations.