A logistics hub planned to be set up near the Mopa Greenfield airport in Goa

GMR Goa International Airport Limited (GGIAL) plans to set up a Logistics park on the 232 acres of commercial land available at Mopa, where Goa’s new greenfield airport is set to come up. The Green field airport the company is building at Mopa in Goa will be commissioned in the next two years.

With an eye on freight cargo, GGIAL plans to outsource the handling of the cargo to a specialist company through a concessionaire agreement, and has also started marketing activities, said deputy CEO Kanwarbir Singh Kalra.

Kalra, who was speaking at the CII Goa conference on logistics, said that GGIAL is working on all aspects required to promote logistics and cargo movement in Goa, particularly for the pharma sector. “We are planning to do something like a logistics park there,” said Kalra.

GMR expects cargo movement from Goa to cross 1,00,000 metric tonnes by around 2045

GMR, which operates the Hyderabad and Delhi airports, expects cargo movement from Goa to cross 1,00,000 metric tonnes by around 2045. “We are planning for that, we have earmarked that much space in our land to handle air cargo movement, and we have kept the facility for a cargo terminal,” said Kalra.

Construction work on the greenfield Mopa airport is on at full speed despite the challenge posed by the Covid 19.” We are targeting 2022 for the airport launch. We are on track and should be able to deliver the airport by August 2022.”