As ACAAI marks 50 years and gathers in Goa under the theme “Made in India, Moved by India โ Building the Logistics Ecosystem for a Trillion-Dollar Trade,” the conversation naturally turns to what that ecosystem needs to run on.
Domestic freight reached 1.39 million tonnes in FY25 and grew another 7.4% in FY26. This made speed, predictability and coordination increasingly critical.
The challenge has evolved from being simply building cargo capacity to now having to connect the stakeholders that actually use it. And, as the network expands, systems fragment. Manual handoffs and disconnected cargo information cannot serve a system that is scalable in any capacity.
A Domestic Airport Cargo Community System (ACCS) can provide the digital layer that connects airlines, airports, handlers, forwarders, transporters, and shippers, enabling shared visibility, standardised data and coordinated execution.
No longer is this just about going paperless. A domestic ACS can become the digital backbone for Indiaโs next phase of air cargo growth. Itโs quickly becoming the next step for companies that want to reduce operational friction, improve predictability, enable faster cargo movement and create the standardised data foundation needed for advanced analytics and AI.
The future of domestic air cargo needs to move information fast so that the cargo can move faster.
