<p data-path-to-node="2"><b data-path-to-node="2" data-index-in-node="0">MUMBAI / NEW DELHI</b> — Major air cargo complexes across India’s primary aviation gateways—including Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA) and Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport (DEL)—have officially expanded their bonded transshipment facilities and accelerated international-to-international (I-to-I) freight handling protocols.</p><p data-path-to-node="3">The strategic operational expansion comes as prolonged maritime disruptions and vessel rerouting in the Persian Gulf and Red Sea push high-value, time-sensitive cargo out of traditional ocean loops and onto sea-air multimodal transport networks.</p><h3 data-path-to-node="4"><b>Scaling Throughput and Clearing Bottlenecks</b></h3><ul data-path-to-node="5"><li><p data-path-to-node="5,0,0"><b data-path-to-node="5,0,0" data-index-in-node="0">Transshipment Facility Expansion:</b> Bonded cargo zones have allocated dedicated processing bays for sea-air conversions, allowing freight arriving from Indian Ocean ports to be rapidly transferred onto outbound international freighters.</p></li><li><p data-path-to-node="5,1,0"><b data-path-to-node="5,1,0" data-index-in-node="0">Customs Clearance Acceleration:</b> Regulatory authorities have streamlined Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) documentation and trust-based screening, cutting airport dwell times for transshipment cargo by up to 30%.</p></li><li><p data-path-to-node="5,2,0"><b data-path-to-node="5,2,0" data-index-in-node="0">Relieving Regional Constraints:</b> By absorbing diverted cargo flows originally bound for Middle Eastern aviation hubs, Indian air terminals are providing vital throughput capacity for global tech, e-commerce, and pharmaceutical supply chains.</p></li></ul>