Dec 21, 2016: GVK MIAL won the ‘Air Cargo Terminal’ award for the year 2015-16 at the 2nd edition of the Logistics Asia Awards held recently at The Gujarat University Convention and Exhibition Centre, GMDC, Ahmedabad. The prestigious award was bestowed upon MIAL in recognition of its outstanding performance in handling and processing of air cargo volumes at CSIA airport.
This is for the second consecutive year that MIAL won the ‘Air Cargo Terminal’ award, an honour given to companies for exceptional performance in the logistics and supply chain industry. The award was conferred upon GVK MIAL at the Logistics Asia Expo 2016, a three-day exhibition that witnessed participation from Chambers of Commerce & Industrial bodies from leading manufacturing states, besides corporates from India and abroad from the various sectors.
A preferred destination for air cargo exports in the western region, MIAL, recently announced the launch of its first-of-a-kind cargo terminal in India for bonded and heavy export cargo. This new facility is expected to enhance MIAL’s export handling capacity by adding 300,000 tonnes of cargo per annum. Currently the air cargo throughput handled at the airport is to the tune of over 0.7 million metric tons per annum.