Pune: The trader community is worried about the prospects to cause additional costs for transporting goods from the city to Mumbai through the 14-day Pune airport closing road for runway carpeting from October 16.
The cost of fuel increases does not help their purpose, as the same thing reflects the increase in transportation costs.
The source in the cold chain of Kool-ex Limited, vaccine transport, said the vaccine movement would not be affected.
However, the greatest sufferer is leaflets and many of them have canceled their trip.
“I have to use Mumbai airport and road transportation has become expensive because of the high price of fuel.
I talked to several transportation companies and they asked about RS14,000 for transportation.
If we know about the previous closure, we can plan something,” company representatives supply engine parts to TOI.
Representatives from Flower Business Companies said, “I tried to talk to personal transporters and they asked RS13,000 to RS15,000 per truck with a heavy one ton.
The company carrying my product to Pune Airport also requested RS12,000.
In addition, the cost of handling Cargo in Mumbai is higher than Pune.
I have to bear the cost.
“Representatives from the logistics company told TII that high transportation costs were caused by fuel prices.
“When closure was announced recently, many tried to take advantage of the situation because traders were not ready.” The source at Kool-ex said they were not worried.
“A bulk vaccine transportation occurred through roads and Mumbai airports due to fewer flight connectivity in Pune.
The Indian Air Force (IAF) previously helped in transporting vaccines to Bangladesh and Bhutan.
We did not see a disorder because of closure,” said the official with KOOL-EX .
Prashant Girbane, Director General of the Chamber of Commerce Marhatta and Agriculture, said, “Passenger traffic is a bigger cause of worries.
For the next two weeks, the impact on the cargo will be lower than it is on passenger traffic, because there is no international cargo because There is no international flight from Pune.
For cargo, a larger discussion is not a two-week disruption but the collaboration of strong countries is needed to establish an international cargo terminal.
“The leaflets and travel agents continue to suffer.
Travel agents said they witnessed about 15% of travel cancellations.
Pune airport closure to hit cargo, no impact on the Vax movement
