The business community of Southern Punjab has reiterated its demand for introducing cargo flights from Multan International Airport immediately because this airport was operational since March 9 when Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif inaugurated it.
The businessmen also demanded completion of Multan's modern cargo complex without any further loss of time to preserve the perishable items. Multan International Airport was completed at an estimated cost of Rs7.5 billion in five years. Now there is a dire need of introduction of cargo flights for European Union, South Africa, Australia, Canada and Gulf states.
Multan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI) President Mian Iqbal Hassan has said the Prime Minister had assured the business community that cargo flights would be introduced for the export of fresh vegetables, fruits like kinno, strawberry etc. Mian Iqbal Hassan said that Multan airport would provide opportunities to mango exporters to bring their consignments to the European Union, the United States and Far Eastern countries. He also voiced his concern over reducing the number of flights to Karachi from Multan and said that only one as against three flights was now available for Karachi daily. He demanded for restoration of all flights from Multan to different destinations. He said that inordinate delay in introducing the direct cargo flights for Dubai, and other Gulf countries causing immense hardships to exporters of perishable food items. He demanded for introducing direct cargo flights from Multan to London, Toronto, Frankfurt, Abu Dhabi, Qatar and Bahrain and, as such, exporters receiving orders for supplying fresh vegetable, Kinno, mango from abroad were unable to meet their demands owing to non-availability of direct flights.
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