KOCHI: With Covid-19 grounding all passenger flights, fish seed suppliers in West Bengal are grouping together to send fish seed to farmers in Kerala on chartered cargo planes, to meet the huge demand by the fish-loving Malayalis. On last Tuesday, the first cargo plane reached Kochi with nearly 9.5 tonnes of cargo and two more flights are expected this week itself.
\nThe first flight came on May 12th carrying 14 shipments meant for 11 buyers in Kerala, confirmed Paul Kocheril, general manager, Cochin International Airport Ltd (CIAL). \u201cVarious cargo agents approached us in Kolkata for shipping fish seeds to Kochi, and hence we operated a non-scheduled flight using a Boeing 737 700 aircraft on Tuesday,\u201d said Christy Joseph, Cargo Manager-Kerala, Spice Jet Ltd. There were 2,500 boxes of \u2018oxygen packed\u2019 fish seed, which is estimated to be 3 million in number.
\nWhen contacted, Uday Mandal, proprietor of Calcutta Cargo, one of the three agents who booked the Kochi flight last week, said that they are planning to send cargo planes to Kerala on 20th and 23rd of May again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
KOCHI: With Covid-19 grounding all passenger flights, fish seed suppliers in West Bengal are grouping together to send fish seed to farmers in Kerala on chartered cargo planes, to meet the huge demand by the fish-loving Malayalis. On last Tuesday, the first cargo plane reached Kochi with nearly 9.5 tonnes of cargo and two more flights are expected this week itself. The first flight came on May 12th carrying 14 shipments meant for 11 buyers in Kerala, confirmed Paul Kocheril, general manager, Cochin International Airport Ltd (CIAL). \u201cVarious cargo agents approached us in Kolkata for shipping fish seeds to Kochi, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}