The Airports Authority of India (AAI) is setting up a Centre for Perishable Cargo with the help of Malaysian technology for preserving 80 tonne of perishable goods daily.
"This is a rupees ten crore project funded by the Agricultural Product Export Development Authority which will have an extensive system where goods will not only be loaded and unloaded from planes, but it will also be checked, weighed and stored," Senior Manager (cargo), K J Raju told PTI.
The system will be separated by chambers. The goods will be unloaded from the truck dock and taken to the refilling area where it will be examined with x-rays and weighed by mobile weighting machine.
From the refilling chamber the goods will go to the Ball Mat area from where it will reach cold storages where they would be frozen at different temperatures.
From there imported goods will sent to market by truck and export goods will be loaded on planes. "There are three cold storages with different temperatures designed for preserving vegetables, meat, fish and medicines," Raju said.
"The system, connected with a conveyor belt, has a capacity of 80 tonne per day," Raju said.
