On Sunday, Chennai airport handled a single piece of cargo weighing 25 tonnes — the largest individual consignment in recent times, according to officials of AAI.
The cargo was on its way to Shanghai in China,
“Indian airports have handled even 70 tonnes in a wide-body aircraft, but it would comprise a combination of several consignments. This is perhaps the first time that a single-piece consignment weighing 25 tonnes was loaded from the airport,” an official said.
The consignment was a furnace manufactured in a factory in Ambattur, according to Philip James of Helmann Worldwide Logistics, the firm that transported it.
