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Old 17th Sep 2012, 13:17
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They are facing difficulty in transportation and storage of the fuel once it arrives at the seaports in India . They have to spend more in money transporting and are finding it difficult to find storage space for the fuel .
This is because all the storage space for fuel at the airports are used up by the govt oil companies .
I read somewhere that SpiceJet had signed an agreement with Reliance for the transportation and storage of ATF . Not sure how far that is true .

Its true that Spicejet is negotiating with REL & few others with IOC for the storage & Transportation provided they charge 10-12 % for the Handling charges which still is profitable for the airlines who pay high taxes in India. Indigo is Planning for a Fuel dump In Gujarat/Mumbai as per the sources from the Ministry of P&R...
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