NewzVille Desk
Civil Aviation Ram Mohan Naidu today flagged off the scaled-up phase of India’s transshipment (TP) cargo reform at Delhi International Airport Limited’s (DIAL) Transshipment Excellence Centre (TEC), IGI Airport, Terminal 2.
Ram Mohan Naidu during his address said, “Under the visionary leadership of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, we are continuously working to strengthen Ease of Doing Business in the aviation sector. Based on industry feedback, we identified long-standing requirement of mandatory re-screening of transshipment cargo, as a key bottleneck. By doing away with it we can significantly reducing turnaround time, handling costs and congestion at cargo terminals. And Proof of Concept exercise on the Chennai–Delhi–Frankfurt route has successfully established that by reducing average end-to-end transit time from 60 hours to just 20 hours”.
Proof of Concept for Domestic-to-International transshipment commenced on 20 June 2026 on the Chennai–Delhi–Frankfurt sector using DIAL’s TEC, with Air India operating the service end-to-end. Since its launch, the PoC transshipped 280 MT of cargo, with aircraft capacity utilization rising from 75% to nearly 100%.
Based on the success of the PoC, the network was expanded to four additional domestic origin stations; Bengaluru, Ahmedabad, Mumbai and Hyderabad along with two new international destinations; London and Copenhagen. The expanded network is projected to increase Air India’s monthly cargo carriage on these lanes from 1,763 MT to 3,183 MT, an increase of nearly 80%.
