Lok Sabha Question No. 2337 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-03-16
Subject: Share of Air Transport
Ministry: CIVIL AVIATION
Asked by: RAVNEET SINGH

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF CIVIL AVIATION LOK SABHA

(To be answered on the i6th March 2017)

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO\_ 2337

## SHARE OF AIR TRANSPORT

## 2337. SHRI RA VNEET SINGH

Will the Minister of CIVIL AVIATION

be pleased to state:-

- (a) the share of the air transport in the total exports of the country (by value and by volume) during the last three years;
- (c) the detaiis of new international cargo airports that the Ministry proposes to set up, including those in Punjab, State/ UT-wise?
- (b) the list of airports with international cargo facility and share of each airport in total air cargo traffic; and

## ANSWER

## Minister of State in the Ministry of CIVIL AVIATION

(Shri Jayant Sinha)

- (a) As per Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics (DGCI&S), Kolkata, the share of the air transport in the total exports of the country in terms of value for the last three years are as under:

Year

% Share of Air Transport

in the total exports

2013-14

19.76

2014-15

21.87

2015-16

23.49

As per DGCI&S, different commodities exported have different units of measurement; viz kilograms, square meters numbers, carats etc. hence calculation of volume of exports in a single unit is very difficult and will not give an accurate figure: being

- (b) The list of airports with international cargo facility and share of each airports in total air cargo traffic is at Annexure-l.
- (c) As o date there is no\_proposal with Ministry of Civil Aviation to set up a new dedicated International Cargo Airport:

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## Annexure-l

The list of airports with international cargo facility and share of each airport in cargo traffic during FY 2016-17 (from April to Dec. 2016)*

| SI NO.   | Name of the airport   | Share %age of International Cargo   |
|----------|-----------------------|-------------------------------------|
| 1        | Delhi                 | 30.12                               |
| 2_       | Mumbai                | 29.04                               |
|          | Bangalore_            | 10.91                               |
| 4        | Hyderabad             | 3.75                                |
| 5        | Cochin                | 3.85                                |
| 6        | Nagpur                | 0.03                                |
| 7        | Chennai               | 14.54                               |
| 8        | Kolkata               | 3.05                                |
| 9_       | Ahmedabad             | 1.6                                 |
| 10_      | Trivandrum            | 1.5                                 |
| 11_      | Goa                   | 0.07                                |
| 12       | Lucknow               | 0.14                                |
| 13       | Jaipur                | 0.14                                |
| 14       | Guwahati              | 0                                   |
| 15_      | Srinagar              | 0                                   |
| 16       | Calicut               | 0.7                                 |
| 17.      | Bhubaneswar           |                                     |
| 18.      | Coimbatore            | 0.07                                |
| 19       | Mangalore             | 0.04                                |
| 20_      | Varanasi              | 0                                   |
| 21_      | Trichy                | 0.4                                 |
| 22_      | Amritsar              | 0.05                                |
| 23_      | Port Blair            | 0                                   |
|          | Imphal                |                                     |
|          | TOTAL                 | 100                                 |

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