The Tiruchi Airport has been witnessing brisk freight exports to select overseas destinations notwithstanding the pandemic. With outgoing international passenger movement from Tiruchi airport during the pandemic period being less, export cargo was being easily accommodated in the overseas flights that departed from Tiruchi. On an average, about 10 tonnes of export cargo was being handled at the airport a day. ‘We are fully utilising the capacity to load export cargo,’ says Mr. Dharmaraj. During the pre-COVID period, the Tiruchi airport used to handle around 750 tonnes of export cargo every month.

Source: The Hindu June 30, 2021 14:03 UTC