{"id":463729,"date":"2022-01-25T09:29:59","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T03:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=463729"},"modified":"2022-01-25T09:45:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T04:15:59","slug":"bengaluru-airport-records-highest-cargo-handling-in-2021-recovery-in-passenger-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bengaluru-airport-records-highest-cargo-handling-in-2021-recovery-in-passenger-traffic\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengaluru airport records highest cargo handling in 2021, recovery in passenger traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kempegowda International Airport has recorded its highest-ever cargo tonnage despite the challenges posed by Covid-19, said Bengaluru International Airport Limited (BIAL).<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, the airport handled an all-time high of 4,06,688 metric tonnes (MT) of cargo, recording a significant growth of 28.6 per cent against the 3,16,305 MT in 2020. \u201cThis is still 7.2 per cent more than the pre-Covid level tonnage of 3,79,348 MT in 2019,\u201d BIAL spokesperson said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cInternational cargo recorded a 32.8 per cent growth as 2,65,873 MT was processed as compared to 2,00,209 MT in 2020. Domestic cargo grew at 21.3 per cent as 1,40,815 MT was processed as against 1,16,096 MT in 2020,\u201d the spokesperson added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kempegowda International Airport has recorded its highest-ever cargo tonnage despite the challenges posed by Covid-19, said Bengaluru International Airport Limited (BIAL). In 2021, the airport handled an all-time high of 4,06,688 metric tonnes (MT) of cargo, recording a significant growth of 28.6 per cent against the 3,16,305 MT in 2020. \u201cThis is still 7.2 per cent more than the pre-Covid level tonnage of 3,79,348 MT in 2019,\u201d BIAL spokesperson said. \u201cInternational cargo recorded a 32.8 per cent growth as 2,65,873 MT was processed as compared to 2,00,209 MT in 2020. Domestic cargo grew at 21.3 per cent as 1,40,815 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463729","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}