(Inhouse Magazine of WWL Group)

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MD’s Message 3

Birthday Babies 4

New Faces & Exits 5

WW WW News –

Who, What, When & Where 6-9

Know your Colleague 10-11

Worldwideans Speak 12

My Tryst with Tech & Music 13-15

Industry News 16-20

WhatsApp Forwards 21-22

Dear Worldwideans,

Seasons Greetings!

As we approach the end of 2018, WWL Group has gone through another year of significant

developments and milestones. Though couple of stations is still far behind in achieving their

numbers, I hope they will do their best and clock in max efforts before wrapping up the year.

After our trip to the US couple of months back, the business volumes received from OEC has

tremendously increased. We can see a surge in business, for both air & ocean. I had already

discussed this in the monthly meetings, but we are seeing the results now. I want to reiterate

again that all station heads must ensure to provide absolutely good service to them. Also,

Backoffice should take care and make sure to give 100% error-free service to OEC (as also for

other Network). We expect the next year to definitely benefit more than what we are receiving

now.

As we had done last time, I request all HODs to distribute the calendars & diaries to all our clients

and prospects without delay. Wherever you had planned for hand delivery, please do so in

advance, so that the compliments are distributed on time. Couriers also must be dispatched on

time. Each station should make sure that no calendars are left undistributed, so that we get full

mileage from this investment and there is no wastage of our resources. I am asking each

HOD/sales person to spend time in the next few weeks on this important exercise.

I am looking forward to receiving your comments (from both staff & customers) about our in-

house designed calendar, on its theme and contents. It will encourage us and help us to enrich

its quality in the coming years.

I wish “Merry Christmas” to all Worldwideans who celebrate it with much fun and frolic!

Let us prepare to welcome 2019 with open arms and the opportunities it brings to all of us!

Wishing you all the best!

Regards,

Bala

Birthday Babies

SNo Employee Name Date of

Birth Location

1 Maragatham T P 01 Dec Chennai Corporate

2 Srinivasan B 01 Dec Chennai Corporate

3 Rajesh Singh Nagarakoti 01 Dec New Delhi

4 Venkatesan K V 02 Dec Coimbatore

5 Kalaiselvi A 05 Dec Chennai Corporate

6 Bharathwaj N 06 Dec Chennai Corporate

7 Manoj Kashinath Mhatre 06 Dec Mumbai Belapur

8 Karthigan P 07 Dec Chennai Port Office

9 Martin Mathew 08 Dec Bangalore

10 Veena M Kedare 09 Dec Mumbai Belapur

11 Vikas D Zende 11 Dec Mumbai Belapur

12 Kiran Kumar B 12 Dec Bengaluru

13 Srinivasan S 13 Dec Chennai Corporate

14 Kalidass 13 Dec Chennai Corporate

15 Priya S 15 Dec Chennai Corporate

16 Praveen E 19 Dec Chennai Corporate

17 Varun Dutta 19 Dec Mumbai

18 Magesh T 20 Dec Chennai Corporate

19 Brian D Souza 20 Dec Mumbai

20 Parameswari K 22 Dec Chennai Corporate

21 Murali Yalangi 24 Dec Gandhidham

22 Vinoth Kumar S 25 Dec Chennai Corporate

23 Priyanka Paresh Bendre 27 Dec Mumbai

24 Gandhi Harshil Ashokbhai 28 Dec Ahmedabad

25 Suresh D 29 Dec Chennai Corporate

WWL wishes them all a Happy Birthday!!

SNo Employee Name Branch Designation / Department

1 Dhanasekar S Chennai - Corporate Executive - Operations

2 Vignesh Harshan Chennai - Corporate Trainee - Operations

3 Prakash Chennai - Corporate Trainee - Operations

4 Sarjeet Singh Manesar Inventory Control - Executive

5 Chintu Yadav Gurgaon DC - Manager

6 Ravi Kiran V Bengaluru Supervisor - Logistics

7 Karthikeyan D Chennai Trainee- Logistics

SNo Employee Name Branch Designation / Department

1 Santhosh U Chennai - Corporate Accounts & Finance

2 Bharath Raghu Chennai Port Operations

3 Amit Kumar Autoliv - Manesar Logistics

4 Vinay H T Autoliv Bengaluru Logistics

5 Praveen G VBI - CHASIS Logistics

6 Arun M Autoliv Bengaluru Logistics

7 Srikanth VBI - CHASIS Logistics

8 Krishnamurthy M VBI - CHASIS Logistics

9 Surendra Tripathi Gurgaon Logistics

Worldwidean of the Month – Oct’18

We are pleased to announce that our Performance Recognition Committee has selected Ms. Kalaiselvi (Air Imports Operations, Chennai Corporate) and Ms. Parameswari (Air Imports Process Implementation & Audit, Chennai Corporate) as Worldwideans of the Month – October 2018. This award is being presented to them for their special initiatives in extensive involvement in training the branch offices towards a transition of Air Imports operations into Information Technology & Software Processes. Excellent progress has been made during the last few months towards implementation and Training of people on IT & Software process and above functions. During the event of this Award ceremony, the HR team had also arranged for conducting few games to make the occasion lively and enable more team building.

Client’s Appreciation:

This Month’s Best Employee Award was won by Vijendra Kumar, Team Member, RM Area of WWL,

AIB Project – in Recognition & Appreciation for the Reduction of line stoppages (AIR BAG) from WWL

Autoliv RM Stores.

Diwali Celebrations @ Corporate:

Diwali was ushered ahead of the actual day by Corporate & Port Office staff. We celebrated an

evening of fun & frolic at a private hall on 3rd November. The event was marked with a variety of

entertainment like mimicry, standup comedy and several games. Few fun-filled moments can be seen

here below.

Know Your Colleague

PR Madhu, DGM Sales, Corporate

1. Your take on the WWL family (colleagues as well as the bosses)

I am very proud to be part of WWL family. My bosses are first very good human being then

bosses. I am getting motivated, encouraged and extended help and support in times of need

both officially and personally. Recognition and rewards are given to all employees for their

good work.

2. What do you personally like about the office/work?

It is professionally managed. The company does a lot on Team building and improvement of

soft skills and interpersonal skills of employees. Talents of employees are brought out in

various events being organized during the year.

3. What are your interests / hobbies (or) how do you spend your free time?

Watching TV and listening to Hindi, Telugu and Tamil movie songs. Love to watch cinema

comedy bits in TV.

4. Tell us about your family members.

We are family of four members. My wife is doing multi-tasking. She has been adding more

qualification along her name. My elder son completed his schooling and got into Mech-

Engineering in Chennai. He is very much fond of sports and in particular Cricket and Foot

Ball. The younger one is in school doing his +2. He is also fond of sports and in particular

Cricket and Foot Ball. Both are fun loving children.

5. Your future plans for the family?

Would like to spend more time with family and love to travel more with family. Have plans of

investing more on higher education for my children.

6. Your mantra for success in life?

Have to set a goal and work towards it through proper planning and execution, with full

dedication and determination to achieve the goal both personally and officially. My success

mantra is “No Pain No Gain”.

7. I am a fan of:

Actor Kamal Hassan and Musician S.P.Balasubramanian.

8. Favorite Song / Movie you often hum/see?

Fav. Songs: Kavidai Paadum Kuyile from Thendrale Ennai Thodu and Enna Azhagu Etthanai

Azhagu from Love Today.

I have seen the movies Vazhve Maayam and Salangai Oli many times.

9. A place you want to visit

Some places in the USA.

10. Things on your ‘to-do’ list

Personally I want to visit all important and historical temples in India.

Officially I want to set a very good and energetic Sales and CS Team to take care of all

business from Automotive Sector. Secondly I want to recruit a good route development

manager in my team focusing for imports from USA & Europe. Also want to visit “A” category

customers along with the overseas partners for the trade development.

Health Tips for the whole body:

If you care for your brain, sleep for 8 hours.

If you care for your eyes, massage your feet with oil before going to bed.

If you care for your heart, avoid excess salt.

If you care for your lungs, avoid smoking.

If you care for your stomach, avoid cold food.

If you care for your throat, use pepper frequently.

If you care for your liver, avoid excessive fatty food.

Contributed by:

GS Mani, Asst Manager – Operations,

Tuticorin

My tryst with Technology & Music

Written by: CR Venkatesh, Corp. Office

This story starts around year 2001, while I was working at Muscat. My boss was a techno-gadget

lover. Being a globetrotter, she used to travel a lot and bring many new gadgets home, from

USA, Singapore, etc. Being her secretary, she induced me to learn all new technologies and keep

her abreast of what’s newly available around the world. She used to bring latest lap/palmtops,

hard disks, USBs, camera, personal media players, Macs, etc. Unlike these days, we used to have

the latest technologies ahead of their appearance in India (maybe with a 2 year’s gap). It was my

job to go through the websites / forums and technical magazines like T3 and tell her about any

new product which comes into the market.

It was sometime around end of 2001, she brought a new ‘strange object’ called Apple iPod which

can store and play music. The ‘mp3’ fever was catching up across the globe at that time. In the

value chain of music hearing, personal music players were playing a big role. Sony Walkman

(cassette player) was a roaring hit and was a game changer in this field. From vinyl records, world

had passed through audio cassettes, CD ROMs and had entered into the era of mp3 for music

listening. Though it had been introduced about a decade earlier, it was fast catching up now with

personal media players. So, when I received the iPod, I had to do some research to learn on how

to use it.

For the uninitiated, here I want to give a small intro into the mp3 technology. Developed in ‘80s

and introduced in ‘90s by Fraunhofer Institute Germany, it caught up with the proliferation of

internet and remained a popular audio format until 2017, after which it died its natural death, on

expiration of the royalty period. For every / any MP3 player you ever bought, a small cut of the

profits went to Fraunhofer as it owned the MP3 encoding. Today, MP3 is not covered by any

legal IP.

MP3 is a compressed audio format which is converted from a pure WAV format. MP3’s quality

depends on its bitrate. Bitrate literally means the number of bits that are conveyed or processed

per unit of time. Actually, the unit of time is second, so the unit of bitrate is bits per second (bps)

or kilobits per second (kbps). WAV is an uncompressed audio format, which is used in proper

audio CDs. The bitrate of this WAV file is 44100 kbps. When we compress this audio output from

WAV to MP3, 44100 kbps of data is compressed into 128 kbps (normal CD quality). Through

some compression and coding processes, minor sounds and noises that are normally inaudible to

a human ear (out of our frequency range of hearing – 20Hz to 20 kHz) are eliminated. The result

is a wave that contains much less information than the original, but sounds more or less the same

to our ears. Lower bitrate means higher compression rate, lower quality and smaller file size.

MP3’s file size is less than 1/10th size of a WAV. So MP3 players became famous as we could stuff

more songs into an MP3 player than a WAV format. But in reality, the sound quality of MP3 is

relatively inferior. MP3 was followed by AAC format which was jointly developed by Sony, Nokia

& AT&T Bell. Both these are lossy digital audio compression formats. There are lossless audio

formats which are of higher quality like FLAC, WAV, etc.

Those days, iPod was only Mac-compatible (later Windows version came) with a click-wheel type,

5GB (1000 songs) capacity. It ran on an interface called Music Match Juke Box and only later, the

iTunes was introduced. Soon enough, the photos viewing feature was added. When I showed

my boss how to use it with some downloaded music from free sites, she was very impressed with

the audio quality, the convenience it gave to hear music while traveling or driving or sitting at

home. I also learnt that the existing audio CDs can be converted into mp3s. That opened up a

huge volume of work for me. Being a large family, they had 100s of CDs of both religious and

secular music. I had to convert all these into mp3 tracks with labeling the file, saving the files into

directory & sub directories and classify based on the genres. So, the files started growing rapidly,

eating lot of disk space. Soon, we were buying quite a few external disks (I remember it started

from 20 GB and as technology developed over the years, went up to couple of TBs). I used to

convert hundreds of CDs every week, while multitasking with the regular office work). I also had

to keep a laptop at home which will go on day & night.

Within few months, the database went up with 1,000s of songs (English, French, Arabic & Quran).

I also kept a record of the singer’s names and if they are of old or new school of music. For

Quran recital itself, there were 15-20 different versions of Sheikhs). Then we started buying iPods

by dozens for gifting to family members, who were actively listening to music and as corporate

gifts to key clients of Govt & Private. Like a DJ / MJ, I had to keep a record of the recipient’s taste

and had to customize their iPod according to that). Somebody may like old Arabic singers like

Oum Kolthoum, Abdel Halim Hafiz, Fairuz, Farid El Atrache, etc, some may listen to new Arabic

singers like Nancy Ajram, Hussain Al Jasmi or Amr Diab. Someone liked compilations of the new

club mix (English, French, Arabic & Spanish). I would be sometimes called in to give a demo to

some elder VVIPs on how to use it.

Our official music collection eventually grew to 50,000 tracks and later when Photos & Videos

feature was added, all family functions, trips & get togethers, official events, etc. were

categorized and stored (more than 200,000 media files). We got all old VHS of family functions

converted them to video format (AVI, WMV or MPEG) in real time. One of my main jobs was to

handle this huge database (categorizing) and keeping multiple backups.

Come October, Apple Events introduced various models of iPods like Mini, Shuffle (smaller than a

matchbox), Nano, Touch, etc. with different storage sizes and purpose. The classic iPod was the

biggest with 160 GB capacity and Shuffle was having less than 1GB capacity. Many of the family

members had multiples of these gadgets for workout sessions, traveling, etc. Every year, Apple

introduced new generation models with different tech, colors & capacity. It collaborated with

Nike and Rock band U2 for various special editions too. We kept importing / buying so many of

these for gifting and for own use (I guess it could be in 1000s!!). We also purchased various

accessories like car chargers, skins, FM transmitters, external speakers, connectors/converters, etc.

Being there at the right time & place, I was at an advantageous position by always having the

latest unit for own use, in the guise of testing.

Far and few in-between, we also tried many other brands of MP3 players like Sony (it used Sony’s

proprietary ATRAC format) and Archos (which can play videos and mp3), etc. But due to the

design and ease of use, eventually we became hardcore Apple users. I also learnt bit of trouble

shooting in the iPod when we experienced any hanging issue, etc. But overall, the unit was

sturdily built and required almost no repairs & maintenance.

Alongside these happenings at my work, I used the technology to also quench my thirst for

collecting and hearing to Ilaiyaraaja’s music. Moving away from cassettes, I purchased original

audio CDs and convert them to MP3 and used on my personal iPod. I also downloaded his songs

from various pirate sites. As extension of this hobby, I learnt to use other software like Audacity

SoundForge, etc to extract, copy, cut & slice the background music from my favourite movies to

listen to it at my leisure. Parallely, my music collection also grew to collecting his 1000+ of his

movie’s songs and background scores. These would be always my treasure for the lifetime. I

used to run Yahoo Groups and blog for sharing these with other fellow Ilaiyaraaja fans on the net.

Well, I am digressing here with my own plug.

While MP3s certainly no longer represent the cutting edge of music technology, they are far from

dead and those who still have thousands of MP3 files on their computer should not worry that

they will no longer be playable. While the MP3 could end up going the way of the vinyl records

which only pretentious artist types listen to, we could also see a mini-renaissance of the file

format which changed the Internet.

Even if the MP3 is doomed to slowly go extinct, there is no denying the critical role it played in

the development of music and the Internet. The MP3 helped develop the rise of Internet piracy

with Napster and the iPod made Apple a tech giant again. Today, we see almost everyone

listening to music on their headphones while walking or traveling in the bus or from anywhere.

More advanced sound formats like AAC borrowed heavily from the MP3 in order to replace it.

Fraunhofer’s announcement is just as likely to spark a nostalgic renaissance for the MP3 as it will

kill it, just like the vinyl record. Now that Apple had discontinued the iPod range, the nostalgia is

going strong with my iPod Touch which I still own.

As a natural extension of iPod, Apple came up with iPhone in 2007 and iPads in 2010. It was a

breeze moving from iPod to iPhone / iPad. From day one, Apple products had an intuitive design

and any one could learn it quickly without much help. Enough has been spoken about Apple’s

design innovations, usage of materials in manufacturing, uncluttered & minimalist interface, etc.

Before Apple iPhones came into being, my boss mostly used Sony Ericsson and rarely Nokia,

Vertu, etc. I have used a Windows phone and Palm for many years, before iPhone appeared on

the horizon. Well, what happened later is a story for another day.

In short, to me, Apple is not a fruit any more.

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e-way bill to integrate with NHAI’s FASTag mechanism & DMICDC’s LDB services

In order to facilitate faster movement of goods and check GST evasion, the Revenue Department

is planning to integrate e-way bill with NHAI’s FASTag mechanism and DMICDC’s Logistics Data

Bank (LDB) services.

The proposal will improve operational efficiencies across the country’s logistics landscape.

Currently, lack of harmonisation under the ‘track and trace’ mechanism in terms of sharing

information among different agencies is affecting the ease of doing business in the country.

Besides, it is also impacting the logistics costs of the companies. The said proposal will also help

in preventing goods and services tax (GST) evasion by unscrupulous traders who take advantage

of the loopholes in the supply chain, reports said.

The integration of the e-way bill system with FASTag and LDB is expected to help boost tax

collections by clamping down on trade that currently happens on cash basis, it is learnt. The

National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has put in place the FASTag system for collection of

toll electronically on national highways. FASTag also offers non-stop movement of vehicles

through toll plazas.

Integration of e-way bill with FASTag will help revenue authorities track the movement of vehicles

and ensure that they are travelling to the same destination as the transporter or the trader had

specified while generating the e-way bill. It will also help the suppliers locate the goods through

the e-way bill system. Transporters, too, would be able to track their vehicles through SMS alerts

that would be generated at each toll plaza, reports added.

Air cargo springs suitable growth

AAI: The current volume of cargo being handled at AAI airports is 8.08 lakh metric tonnes. And,

there is 34.53 per cent increase in tonnage and 19.55 per cent rise in revenue during financial

year 2016-17 as compared to last year.

We have plenty plans to focus on; development of Free Trade Warehousing Zone by 2023,

development of complete range of documentation services on behalf of airlines to be rendered

by AAICLAS by Q2-2018-19, development of Air Cargo Community System for air cargo sector by

2021-22, and exploring the possibility of end-to-end processing of shipments moving completely

in electronic form at air cargo terminals at AAI airports – partially ongoing. We are planning to

launch common user domestic air cargo terminal at following airports with the specific time line.

Q3 2017-18 Vijayawada, Guwahati, Varanasi & Trivandrum

Q4 2017-18 Pune

Q1 2018-19 Lucknow

Q2 2018-19 Tirupati, Surat & Rajahmundry

Q1 2019-20 Srinagar

Q2 2019-20 Amritsar

India among top 10 for cargo – SwissWorld Cargo

India is in the top 10 markets from where we get suitable cargo for Swiss WorldCargo. Since we

are not growing capacity-wise, all we can do is to work more with the mix of the products we

carry out of India. It is important to note that preparing your budget is not only about having

enough weight but also the type of freight we carry. That is why the idea is to grow in the

pharma segment, where there is a lot of potential for growth. Our target for India is to look

different from other carriers because we fly medium-sized aircrafts, A330.

Delhi’s facility is comparable to what we have in Zurich and we are very proud on our efficient

and flexible Zurich hub. We have found Delhi market quite ad-hoc compared to Mumbai. Of late,

we are getting high quality business from here. Our partners are very positive as far as the

outlook is concerned. We want to jointly build the pharma segment in the national capital.

Nowadays, we already have a good mix of pharma, industrial goods, and engineering goods out

of Mumbai, but we see less of pharma out of Delhi even with the adequate infrastructure in place.

Pharma is one of Swiss WorldCargo’s core competencies and we do continuously focus on

evolving our pharma business for Zurich, Switzerland, and Brazil.

We would love to have more capacity on our flights or even additional flights to and from India,

as the country is consistently doing really well. It would be nice for us to participate in the

growth. Further, there are some airlines which are purely flying domestic, with whom we already

have a good interline agreement to grow together. Seeing the boom in the automotive market,

we will look for an increase in share of automotive parts from OEMs, besides the pharma

industry.

Celebi launches charter handling product in Delhi

With an aim to make Delhi a charter hub, Celebi launched its charter-handling product in the

capital. The idea behind the launch is to attract more charter into the city and offer a

comprehensive air cargo charter handling facility. Delhi has been identified as the first pilot

station to be developed as a transhipment cargo hub by MoCA under National Civil Aviation

Policy 2016. “Our project allows charter customers to manage multiple operations through a

single point of contact,” said Ramesh Mamidala, CEO, Celebi Delhi Cargo Terminal Management

India.

Celebi launches bonded trucking from Ahmedabad to Delhi

Celebi Delhi Cargo Terminal Management India, in collaboration with OM Logistics and GSEC,

Ahmedabad Airport, have commenced a dedicated bonded trucking from Ahmedabad to Celebi

Terminal Delhi IGI Airport, after the successful launch at Kanpur, Ludhiana, Noida SEZ and

Pithampur SEZ1 & SEZ2. The objective is to provide their customers a possibility to move air

cargo in an efficient, safe, process driven and cost effective manner.

Bonded trucking is relatively a new concept in India and Celebi Delhi Cargo Terminal has taken a

step forward to start a hub & spoke project. This bonded trucking service will open tremendous

opportunities to airlines to solicit business from stations that are offline. Ramesh Mamidala, CEO,

said, “Now cargo from Gandhinagar, Bhavnagar, Surat, Vadodra and even Indore can be Custom-

cleared at GSEC facility at Ahmedabad Airport and sent to Delhi Airport daily.

We hand pick our logistics partners and manage every aspect of the service for commitment, on

time performance and transparency to guarantee quality of service to our customers. After

Ahmedabad, we plan to start bonded trucking from Indore, Jaipur, Durgapur, Pune, Agra,

Moradabad and Rishikesh – Roorky belt in 2019. Besides starting temperature-controlled road

transport to Delhi from Indore and Ahmedabad, speed, safety and security are the key words that

identify our air cargo road bonded service.”

Jet Airways uplifts record 45 tonnes cargo

Jet Airways has entered global record books for the highest uplift of cargo by an Indian carrier in

a single flight. The airline uplifted 45 tonnes of cargo on one of its flights on the Mumbai-London

sector operated by a B777-300ER aircraft. The record is globally significant as only two other

international carriers have previously operated a flight each with a cargo complement of over 40

tonnes on a Boeing777-300 aircraft. The cargo comprised of product mix including perishables

(fruits and vegetables), engineering goods, garments, courier, leather goods and consolidation

cargo. Air cargo is a vital part of the business at Jet Airways. This milestone is testament to our

dedicated focus of growing cargo revenues, which has recorded a CAGR of more than 15% in the

past three years.

KPMG and ASCP release report on state of supply chains in India

According to a report titled ‘Supply chains in India: A reality check – Here to where and how’

released by KPMG (India) and Association of Supply Chain Professionals (ASCP), 80 per cent

supply chain leaders in India believe customer centricity will be the key theme for supply chain of

the future. The report highlights challenges faced by supply chains in India in each of the

planning, sourcing, making and delivery stages; impact of key initiatives undertaken to overcome

these challenges; the mindset that creates roadblocks in benefit realization; level of technology

adoption and key emerging themes for supply chains of the future. KPMG also shared in the

report its perspective on how supply chains can be built effectively for the digital world.

Warehouse space leasing up 45% in major cities: CBRE

As per the CBRE South Asia latest report ‘India Industrial and Logistics Market View, H1 2018’,

cities like Bengaluru (25 per cent), Delhi-NCR (21 per cent) and Mumbai (20 per cent) are driving

the potential demand for logistics and warehousing space, followed by southern markets

including Chennai (12 per cent) and Hyderabad (10 per cent). Leasing activity was primarily driven

by consolidation and expansion initiatives of firms belonging to sectors such as e-commerce, 3PL,

retail, and engineering and manufacturing, which together accounted for more than 75 per cent

of the leasing reported during the review period. The findings stated that the transaction activity

continued to gain strength in H1 2018 as close to 10 million sq.ft of space was leased across the

seven cities, an increase of about 45 per cent as compared with H1 2017.

Indian air cargo must grow 12.9% p.a: ASSOCHAM-Auctus Advisors study

The Indian air cargo industry needs to grow at a rate of about 12.9 per cent every year from 2018

to 2027 to achieve National Civil Aviation Policy’s (NCAP 2016) vision of reaching cargo volumes

of 10 million tonnes (MT) by 2027, notes a recent ASSOCHAM-Auctus Advisors joint study. The

report suggests that international and domestic air freight is projected to grow at an overall

Compounded Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 8.2 per cent. Considering this trend to continue till

2027, projected international and domestic air cargo will be 3.6 MT and 2.1 MT, respectively,

resulting in total air cargo traffic of 6.8 MT, it states.

The study also highlights various issues confronting the aviation logistics sector in India. Lack of

enabling infrastructure, lack of automated material handling systems, high manual intervention in

processes, and inadequate skilled manpower are some of the key areas where Indian air cargo

industry lags behind global peers. “There is an urgent need for creating adequate freight carrying

capacity within the Indian air network through creation of new cargo terminals and expansion of

existing ones,” the report states.

Bhubaneswar airport to increase export capacity to 50,000 MT by 2022

The Biju Patnaik International Airport (BPIA) that registered record growth in passenger inflow

also achieved success in air cargo services. The airport is aiming to increase international export

capacity upto 50,000 metric tonne (MT) by 2022.

The city airport registered an increase by 16.28% in inter-state cargo export sector in 2017-18.

Sources in the BPIA said that while cargo export capacity from the airport was 6,051 MT in

international level during 2016-17 fiscal, it reached 7,036 MT in the year 2017-18. Similarly in

international level, the cargo export was 1,243 MT from the BPIA during 2016-17 and the capacity

rose to 1,697 MT in 2017-18 fiscal, an increase by 36.5%.

In domestic cargo export sector, the airport recorded 7,294 MT in 2016-17, while it had 8,733 MT

during last fiscal. Currently, the cargo with capacity of 10,000 MT is being exported to

international destinations from the BPIA. It is likely to grow up to 50,000 MT by 2022, source said.

In this regard, a domestic and international cargo export facility centre has been set up at the

Bhubaneswar airport to increase the capacity.

High level Iranian Delegation visits JNPT

The bilateral trade between India and Iran has been consistently growing and touched around

US$ 16 billion during the last year. Both countries have an excellent record of trade and efforts

are on to further strengthen the trade relations. Iran is trying to use Indian ports as

transshipment hubs for expanding its trade.

In this background, a high-level delegation under the leadership of Mr. Mohammad Rastad,

Deputy Minister and Managing Director for Ports and Maritime organisation (PMO) of Islamic

Republic of Iran along with 15 members of high-ranking delegates visited Jawaharlal Nehru Port

Trust to understand the port operations.

The port which currently handles 4.8 million TEUs would double its capacity after the completion

of phase-2 of fourth terminal. The delegation was also appraised about JNPT’s plans of expansion

of liquid cargo terminal, shallow water berth to increase the cargo handling capacity. The

presentation also highlighted various infrastructure projects such as SEZ, Dry Ports, Vadhvan

satellite port being taken up by JNPT and harnessing modern technology to create positive

environment for the trade.

New Integrated Logistics and Air Cargo Policy soon: Govt.

The Union Minister of Commerce and Industry and Civil Aviation, Dr Suresh Prabhu, said recently

that the new Integrated Logistics and Air Cargo Policy would be announced very soon, in which

every minute detail pertaining to logistics and cargo would be addressed to the best of the

satisfaction of all stakeholders.

The government is of the view that the basic objective on which the logistics and air cargo policy

is being put in place is based on the premise that it is the context that is important rather than

the text, because both logistics and cargo are significant growth sectors. The policymakers are

adhering to this objective, so that following the announcement of the policy, the projected

growth in agriculture, manufacturing, etc. can be serviced by a growing air cargo sector with an

affordable tariff structure.

Digital Trucking: A gear change

With the second largest road network across the world at 5.4 million km, approximately 65% of

cargo moves by road in India, as per an IBEF report. During the past three decades, movement of

goods by road is gaining considerable momentum in the country, while a growth pause is not

expected in demand in the years to come. With the growing demand, digitisation is coming in

the industry in a big way. Trucking industry in India has remained the most unorganized and dull

among other modes of transportation. Seeing digitisation here might be bliss for the industry.

The biggest concept of digital trucking from the economic front shall be their ability to

communicate with fleet management/LSP and with shippers/customer of goods. In future, cloud-

based solutions for freight matching with trucks will eventually be able to determine whether

they can take on additional freight. The truck trailer itself will be able to determine its available

space and weight, as well as scheduled route, ETA, and other relevant information through

sensors and communicate this data to a digital freight-matching platform for quick extra load

and thereafter its reverse loads.

Trucking used to be considered as the last dark continent in logistics value chain which was

difficult to be conquered due to various factors. However, with the availability of digital

technologies, connected network and regular lowering cost of using these technologies, the

transformation in trucking has begun. Numerous players in the market are investing into the

R&D of the digital platforms and offering innovative solutions to transform the ecosystem. Rivigo

started it and now DHL is pushing ahead with driver reforms. Blackbuck and few others took lead

in matching the supply and demand to improve the overall capacity utilization. Use of GPS

devices to track the vehicles is increasingly becoming a norm with the organized fleet operators.

GST itself is having transformative effect by reducing the bottlenecks and saving the trucking

time spent at tolls. Lot of work is happening on route optimization, blockchain technologies, fleet

management, vehicle performance management to drive change and complete transformation of

trucking.

At a fundamental level, a cloud-based solution provides information flow within as well as across

organisation, including between the supplier and the buyer of product/service. Almost any

transaction between two players of the ecosystem gets facilitated with speed and error-free

communication, including (a) finding a service provider or a customer (b) order placements (c)

shipping document preparation (d) live status of delivery (e) invoicing (f) payments as well as (g)

statement of transactions and accounts and reconciliation. Further, it has the potential of creating

complete transparency between the two transacting parties.

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