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G. Gurumurthy

Coimbatore , Jan. 24

CONTAINER Corporation of India (Concor) is launching a new road-based cargo service - bonded trucking of air cargo from Coimbatore - from tomorrow.

The company will run the customs-cleared trucking of air-cargo for export from Coimbatore to three gateway international airports - Kochi, Kozhikode and Chennai and maybe one to Bangalore as well - which are served by international flights.

According to Concor sources, the company has tied up with two foreign airlines - Qatar Airways and Sri Lankan Airlines — which have nominated Concor as their agency to handle transport of export cargo cleared on bonds furnished to the Customs by road from Coimbatore to the respective gateway airports.

Concor is the second logistic company to take up bonded trucking of export cargo from the Coimbatore airport. The Commercial Cargo Linkers of Bangalore is the other transporting company that too runs a similar service from here. Besides these two, the Central Warehousing Corporation, the custodian of a City-based inland container station at Singanallur here — is also operating the service for air cargo.

Concor's entry is expected to sharpen the cargo transport sector especially in terms of product pricing as the bonded trucking route offers economic transportation package for air-bound cargo.

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