Mayur Shah, Executive Director, Suzuki R&D Center India Private Limited, turns attention to the ground itself. Festive peaks, he says, compress weeks of cargo and personnel movement into a few days, and infrastructure cannot expand overnight. The answer lies in extracting more from existing space and manpower.
Smarter ground mobility eases festive cargo pressure
Narrow spaces
Compact, person-driven micro e-mobility platforms move staff, documents, tools and light consignments through narrow, congested zones, easing the burden on ground teams and helping hubs absorb festive demand smoothly.
Physical AI on the move
Physical AI turns a moving platform into a roving source of ground-level data on congestion, movement and air quality, complementing fixed camera and sensor networks. The Suzuki platform is sensor agnostic and driven by trained personnel rather than operating autonomously, preserving the accountability bonded cargo areas require, while helping operators spot bottlenecks early and redeploy resources in real time.
Quiet, clean and sustainable
The battery-powered Versatile Micro e-Mobility (VmeM) platform delivers quiet, emission-free operation, which matters most in enclosed cargo bays running around the clock. It lowers running costs, supports decarbonisation goals such as ACI’s Airport Carbon Accreditation and won the Grand Prize for Sustainability at ACFI’s Innovatopia Awards 2025.
The last few hundred metres
Much festive cross-border delay occurs on the ground, within terminals and warehouses. Suzuki brings decades of Japanese mobility engineering to these last few hundred metres, working with operators to develop solutions jointly. The aim is faster, cleaner ground operations for India’s growing air cargo sector, built on the enduring partnership between India and Japan.
