Considering Indian industry is suffering from high dwell time during inbound and outbound cargo custom clearance procedures, it is essential to capitalize on technological advances to promote hurdle free air cargo movement.

Further, there is a need to get away with human interface between officials and agents, as such single window system should be fully integrated with electronic data interchange (EDI) system, this also calls for urgently improving information technology (IT) infrastructure of air cargo process.

The ASSOCHAM-Auctus study also suggested introducing a separate comprehensive air cargo policy to reduce bottlenecks in freight movement.

Besides, according industry status to Indian air cargo logistics sector would go a long way in bringing down the current logistics costs and improving efficiency.

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