Air India SATS Airport Services Pvt Ltd (AISATS) has won the ‘Air Cargo Terminal Operator of the Year’ award at this year’s Indian Supply Chain & Logistics Summit and Excellence Awards 2012. Organized by the Indian Chamber of Commerce, the inaugural Award ceremony was held yesterday in New Delhi.
The Excellence Awards have been instituted to honour and recognize efforts made by the Indian logistics and supply chain organizations in creating industry benchmarks and adopting best practices.
The ‘Air Cargo Terminal Operator of the Year’ award was based on AISATS’ excellence in their Bengaluru cargo terminal capacity utilization, level of mechanization, range of specialised and value-added services, IT and Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) system, customer satisfaction and responsiveness, security management, energy conservation and innovation.
On winning this award, AISATS CEO, Willy Ko said : “We are honoured to receive this award on behalf of our AISATS team, our partners and customers. We recognize their dedication, support and close teamwork that made our market leadership and the award possible. In line with our aspiration to redefine airport service experience, AISATS is the first in India to install the Automatic Storage and Retrieval System when we started. 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.”