The airport of a large city of India stopped accepting cargoes of Aeroflot

Mumbai Airport, operated by Adani Group, has stopped accepting cargo booked by Russian airline Aeroflot. This was reported by the Hindu Business Line.

Aeroflot operates daily flights between Moscow and Delhi. The airline also operates seasonal winter flights to Goa. The goods under customs control are delivered by trucks from Mumbai and other cities, after which they are sent to Russia.

The restrictions come days after Adani sold $1 billion in shares in its airport management unit to investors, including U.S. funds.

The decision of the airport was opposed by an agent of Aeroflot for the sale of cargo transportation - Delmos Aviation Pvt Limited. It has asked India’s Ministry of Civil Aviation to intervene as shippers face delays and additional costs due to the restrictions imposed.

RBC sent requests to Aeroflot, S7, Ural Airlines.

Mumbai is the largest city in Maharashtra and the financial capital of India. The city is located on the west coast of the country, on the shores of the Arabian Sea, and is a major center of finance, trade and international transportation. Here are the leading stock exchanges and financial institutions of India, as well as a major port.

Hindu Business Line points out that airlines allow shippers to deliver cargo to the terminal after checking the invoice and flight booking information. Goods under customs control, in turn, must be delivered to the airport, where they will be checked by customs officers. In the future, they are sent to the destination for further transportation.

In Mumbai, this process for two weeks actually stopped for cargoes booked on Aeroflot and the airline Volga-Dnepr. Loaded trucks are forced to return to the point of departure.

According to the newspaper, the airline "Volga-Dnepr" on September 19 had to redirect its flight to Delhi after the refusal of permission for service from the airport Navi-Mumbai.

In a letter to the Ministry of Civil Aviation dated September 30, Delmos Aviation said it had not been provided with a proper explanation of the reasons for refusing Russian air carriers to obtain permits.

“We do not ask for exemptions from Indian law, customs requirements, aviation security procedures or other applicable law. We are only asking for a clear written and uniformly applied policy, as well as a working procedure for cargoes that have already entered the zone under customs control, said Dr. Naveen Rao, managing director of Delmos Aviation.

In late September, Rosaviatsiya reported that Ural Airlines plans to launch direct flights from Yekaterinburg to Mumbai. At the same time, the airline plans to close the flight from St. Petersburg to Mumbai, and instead fly there from Yekaterinburg three times a week.