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Interview
Satyaki
Raghunath

Our express cargo or express our air cargo community system which feature and about your outreach to
courier terminal - that’s the other brings together all of the stakeholders nearby industrial regional clusters and
facility we significantly invested in. Our within the cargo community on the their integration into the airport cargo
ECT was developed/inaugurated in same platform. It allows us to make the community system?
March 2021 and that has also meant entire process digital. So today we have Everybody who operates through
that we have three of the largest no paper processes across the BLR BLR Airport now on the cargo front
dedicated freighter companies coming Airport cargo systems. Our entire cargo is integrated on the Airport Cargo
in here on their own mettle. community and cargo platform is now Community System (ACS). The wider
seamless on the ACS. discussion with our LogiConnect
You also mentioned digitalisation as Additionally we are moving into a customers increasingly has been, how
a strategy going forward which drove warehouse management system which do we get exports through BLR Airport;
this growth momentum. Can you touch is completely digital across the two how can we make the processing time
upon some of the initiatives that BLR terminals. Our truck parking facility is faster; how can you set up that dedicated
Airport has taken in this regard? also completely digital. freight corridor almost on each of your
As an airport, five or six years ago we manufacturing facilities to the airport
realised that technology was going to What is the size of investment into and bonded trucks and how can we
be a major driver of growth. We did both these areas? process it through the airport as quickly
(implemented) that across three areas Over the course of the last five years at as possible. So we did that even before
including operational efficiencies, new BLR Airport we have done two things; ACS was online here at BLR Airport.
sources of revenue generation and one is that we have invested $2 billion It was a dedicated partnership we did
customer experience. So if you look at in overall infrastructure development in the hinterland with key partners, key
all of our investments across the airport, and that means across the airside, stakeholders, freight forwarders etc to
then they have been focussed on those terminals, landside, support and utilities make sure that we could tap into these
three areas. including cargo infrastructure. markets, tell them that there is value for
So we have done process automation We have also invested significantly them by coming through BLR Airport.
across the airport campus, we have in digital infrastructure as part of this Bonded trucking is fairly
done data analytics and business expansion. So overall, over the course straightforward, for example if it is
intelligence across the campus. We have of the last 4-5 years, we must have Erode or Tirupur it is textiles, if it is
done focussed passenger-facing app invested north of $2 billion in the same. Ambur or Vaniyambadi it could be
improvements. On the cargo front what leather or other processed or finished
we did very specifically was focussing on Can you explain the bonded trucking goods. What they do is that they get
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