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* India: Airport cargo terminal in shambles
* Lack of discipline and mass dumping leaves GVK-run Mumbai Airport's
Mumbai,India -ET, by Anirban Chowdhury -Oct 18, 2014: ... About 1,200 trucks come into the airport every day. But there is no order. Several trucks carrying light cargo sneak into a shorter queue actually meant exclusively for heavy vehicles carrying over 300 tonnes of freight. Some export cargo vehicles divert into the line of empty trucks waiting for import consignments. Many trucks are parked in a space not meant for parking... Outside the general export cargo wing — the space handling the single largest bulk of freight at the airport — loaders dump boxes and pellets of different shapes and sizes. This is no storage space. But they will lie there for hours, until hundreds of boxes inside the facility are cleared for flying. By the time one of the boxes in Amol's tempo makes its way to the final stack, it will be midnight, 20 hours after it came to the airport...
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