Question : DEVELOPMENT OF CARGO TERMINALS

(a) whether the Government proposes to establish new cargo terminals and upgrade the existing cargo terminals at various airports of the country and if so,the details and the present status thereof;

(b) whether the Government also proposes to develop Multi-Model International Cargo Hub at certain airports of the country and if so, the details and the present status thereof, State-wise including Tamil Nadu; and

(c) the total volume of passenger and cargo traffic handled by Air India during each of the last three years and the current year along with the revenue earned therefrom during the said period, year-wise?

Minister of State in the Ministry of CIVIL AVIATION (Dr. Mahesh Sharma)

(a) & (b): Air Cargo Terminals including international and domestic cargo facilities at the airports of Airports Authority of India and Joint Venture airports are developed by the respective airport operators from time to time based on their assessment of existing market conditions and future potential for such facilities.

Airports Authority of India (AAI) has planned to develop Common User Domestic Air Cargo facility in a phased manner subject to Cargo potential feasibility study. The AAI has initially identified 24 airports for development of Common User Domestic Air Cargo Terminals.Airports Authority of India has established Common User Domestic Air Cargo Terminal at Port Blair airport and prepared a road-map to develop Common User Domestic Air Cargo Facility at 24 airports namely Amritsar, Lucknow, Jaipur, Varanasi, Srinagar, Ahmedabad, Surat, Aurangabad, Pune, Goa, Chennai, Coimbatore, Mangalore, Trichy,Trivandrum, Calicut, Kolkata, Bhubaneswar, Ranchi, Gaya, Raipur, Madruai, Vizag and Guwahati.

(c): The Total volume of passenger and cargo traffic handled by Air India during each of the last three years and the current year along with the revenue earned therefrom during the said period are as under:;

 
	2014-15	2013-14	2012-13	2011-12	Original	Revised	Actual	Actual	Budget	Budget 
 1. No. of	16.10	15.30	14.10	13.10 Revenue passengers (Mill.) 2. Cargo	223208	198241	158219	136809 Traffic (Tonnes) 3. Passen-	16,377.00	14,300.00	12,494.44	11,423.69 ger Revenue (Rs. crs.) 4. Cargo	1,300.00	1,200.00	854.90	754.97 Revenue (Rs. crs.)