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Dec 07, 2017 (newstodate): In autumn 2010, Uzbekistan commissioned the new air cargo terminal at the country's Navoi Airport.
Designed to handling up to 100,000 tonnes annually, the terminal should constitute a vital element in the plan to set up an international logistics center at Navoi as contained in the MoU between Uzbekistan Airways and Korean Air, signed in February 2008.
The development of the Navoi international inter-modal logistics center has however failed to live up to expectations, and the project received harsh criticism from the country's president at a meeting on December 6, 2017, devoted to issues of improving activities at Navoi.
An analysis of activities of the center, presented at the meeting, shows that, despite the granted benefits, the capabilities of the terminal are not used at full capacity.
Less than 20 percent of the 100,000 tonnes capacity of the center is operated, and over the past eight years only 300,000 tonnes of cargo have actually been transported through Navoi Airport.
The forecast for 2017 predicts that the total cargo turnover at the terminal will decrease by 11 percent, compared to 2016, to 33,000 tonnes, and only two flights per day are now handled at the airport.
Contributing to the bad situation are lack of sufficient fuel, high airport and handling charges and not least bad management, the president stressed.
Designed to handling up to 100,000 tonnes annually, the terminal should constitute a vital element in the plan to set up an international logistics center at Navoi as contained in the MoU between Uzbekistan Airways and Korean Air, signed in February 2008.
The development of the Navoi international inter-modal logistics center has however failed to live up to expectations, and the project received harsh criticism from the country's president at a meeting on December 6, 2017, devoted to issues of improving activities at Navoi.
An analysis of activities of the center, presented at the meeting, shows that, despite the granted benefits, the capabilities of the terminal are not used at full capacity.
Less than 20 percent of the 100,000 tonnes capacity of the center is operated, and over the past eight years only 300,000 tonnes of cargo have actually been transported through Navoi Airport.
The forecast for 2017 predicts that the total cargo turnover at the terminal will decrease by 11 percent, compared to 2016, to 33,000 tonnes, and only two flights per day are now handled at the airport.
Contributing to the bad situation are lack of sufficient fuel, high airport and handling charges and not least bad management, the president stressed.