tushar jani
Cargo Service Center (CSC) never stopped functioning during the lockdown. In fact, CSC was commissioned for the movement of COVID-19 materials; we had been in the forefront to support countries in need for health relief material. Tushar Jani, Group Chairman, Cargo Service Center (CSC) informs Ajeet Kumar, how CSC's pharma facilities kept operating 24x7, providing lifeline support for pharma export which in turn helped import material for COVID-19. He also informs about the country's logistic sector which is undergoing rapid innovations, and how logistics service providers have to be agile, flexible and conceptualise strategies that gel with the sector's future orientation.
The '3 Vs' important for logistics: Velocity, Visibility and Variability
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ost-lockdown, how long would you estimate it would take for our industry to get back to business as usual? What will be the growth drivers? The normalcy of flights will take a longer time than expected to come to the pre-COVID-19 levels. As far as cargo is concerned, India is operating at 50 per cent capacity of the demand for cargo. Carriers have converted their passenger aircrafts for freighter operations, but as the time passes, probably, we will still have 30 to 35 per cent lesser cargo vol14 |
July 2020