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India scaled up its air cargo transshipment network on 19 August 2026 at the Transshipment Excellence Centre at Terminal 2 of IGI Airport, Delhi.
The expanded network links four domestic origin stations, Bengaluru, Ahmedabad, Mumbai and Hyderabad, with London and Copenhagen.
The pilot, run end-to-end by Air India from 20 June 2026 on the Chennai-Delhi-Frankfurt sector, moved 280 metric tonnes of cargo.
Aircraft capacity utilisation on the pilot route rose from 75 per cent to nearly 100 per cent.
The Bureau of Civil Aviation Security removed redundant X-ray rescreening at transit airports, cutting transit time from 60 hours to about 20 hours.
Transshipment cargo is freight that passes through an intermediate airport before continuing to its final destination. Instead of every city needing its own long-haul freighter connection, cargo from several domestic origins is consolidated at one hub and loaded onto a single international flight. This raises the load factor on the long-haul leg and lets smaller cities plug into global trade routes without dedicated international services of their own.
Simple Analogy: It is the cargo version of a connecting flight: several small feeder loads meet at one airport and travel onward together on one big aircraft.
Regulator for civil aviation security in India; it revised the cargo security framework to end duplicate X-ray rescreening of cargo already secured at origin
Operates and manages Indira Gandhi International Airport, including the Transshipment Excellence Centre at Terminal 2
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Movement of cargo through an intermediate hub before it reaches its final destination.
The share of an aircraft's available cargo capacity actually filled on a given route.
Repeat security screening of cargo at a transit airport, even where it was already screened at origin.