Cargo service at Bengaluru International Airport wins award

Air India-SATS, the joint venture of AI, providing ground handling and cargo handling services at the Bengaluru International Airport, has been awarded the Air Cargo Terminal Operator of the Year award at the Indian Supply Chain and Logistics Summit and Excellence Awards, 2012, organised by the Indian Chamber of Commerce in New Delhi.

The award was based on the excellence of service provided by AI-SATS in its Bangalore cargo terminal capacity utilisation, level of mechanisation, range of specialised and value-added services, IT and Electronic Date Interchange (EDI) system, customer satisfaction and responsiveness, security management, energy conservation and innovation.

The Excellence Awards have been instituted to honour and recognise efforts of the Indian logistics and supply chain organisations in creating industry benchmarks and adopting best practices.

On winning this award, AI-SATS CEO, Willy Ko, said: “We are honoured to receive this award on behalf of our AI-SATS team, our partners and the customers.” 

He said AI-SATS is the first company in India to install the automatic storage and retrieval system.

“We will soon be launching another first, the Very-Narrow Aisle Material Handling System. We are actively working with our customers and the air cargo community to help grow their business and help improve the value chain to benefit the whole industry,” the AI-SATS CEO said.