Shreeji wins bonded trucking rights at Navi Mumbai airport

Shreeji Translogistics has secured customs permission to move import and export transhipment cargo under bond from the Air Cargo Complex at Navi Mumbai International Airport to gateways across India — plugging a road-transport operator into one of the country's biggest greenfield cargo builds.

The Vashi-headquartered company disclosed the approval in a stock exchange filing on 3 November 2026. No committed volumes, contract values, truck deployment figures or first-movement date came with it. The filing shows opportunity, not yet revenue.

Shreeji is no newcomer here. It has run customs-bonded trucking since 2002, and management framed the Navi Mumbai permission as an expansion of an existing service line, not a new business segment. Cargo operations at the new airport, management said, are expected to create additional opportunities for the company.

What does the permission cover?

Two flows, both under bond. First, import transhipment cargo arriving at Navi Mumbai's Air Cargo Complex and moving onward by road to other Indian gateways. Second, export transhipment cargo flowing the other way, feeding the new airport from inland points.

Bonded trucking is the connective tissue between customs-controlled facilities. It lets air cargo continue its international journey by road — between airports, inland container depots, container freight stations and air freight stations — without clearing customs at every hop, subject to the applicable procedures.

The commercial logic is simple. Airlines can't fly freighters to every point on the map. Bonded road legs let a carrier serve cargo destinations that sit beyond its flight network, connecting them to the airports it does serve. Shreeji runs containerised trucks for these movements and offers arrangements for non-standard cargo dimensions. Its services cover customs-notified air cargo complexes across India.

What does this change for shippers and airlines?

For airlines weighing Navi Mumbai as a freighter call, it means an inland distribution network exists from day one — or at least an authorised operator ready to build one. For forwarders and shippers, it means transhipment routings through the new gateway don't depend on a second flight leg. Road can do that work.

The permission also deepens Shreeji's Mumbai footprint. Mumbai Customs Public Notice 49/2025 already recorded its authorisation to move specified airlines' import cargo from the Mumbai Air Cargo Complex to notified complexes, depots, freight stations and air freight stations, plus export bonded trucking from the same complex, subject to airline authorisation and customs approval. Those permissions cover the existing Mumbai airport. The new approval extends the same model to its rival across the bay.

How much cargo is Navi Mumbai actually building for?

The airport's published cargo plans target an initial annual handling capacity of roughly 500,000 tonnes, rising in phases to 2.6 million tonnes. That is serious scale for a greenfield operation.

The facility list runs long:

• Pharmaceuticals and perishables handling
• Express shipments
• Oversized cargo
• Dangerous goods
• Other specialised consignments

Infrastructure includes temperature-controlled areas, separate cargo storage zones, customs offices, and parking for trucks, trailers and refrigerated vehicles — the last item no accident for a bonded trucker.

Two digital systems are planned. An airport cargo community system would connect stakeholders through a shared platform, while automated truck-slot management is designed to organise terminal access — directly relevant to road operators queueing at the gate.

The anchor tenant question is already answered in part. FedEx broke ground on a proposed 300,000-square-foot automated hub on 18 February 2026, backed by a long-term investment of approximately ₹2,500 crore. That facility is planned as a regional consolidation and redistribution centre supporting trade with Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the United States. Shreeji's announcement names no commercial arrangement with the FedEx hub, but the adjacency is obvious: an integrator hub of that size generates bonded road volumes by definition.

The open items are the ones that will decide whether this permission becomes a business. Volumes, contracts, first movements — none disclosed yet. What is clear is direction: Navi Mumbai is assembling the pieces of a full cargo ecosystem, and Shreeji has just secured its seat in the road leg of it.