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Big Plan to Move Packages Around the World! 🌍✈️

India's big airport in Delhi helps packages travel faster.

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Key Points

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Delhi airport added four new Indian cities and two new countries to its package‑moving network.

Planes can now fill almost all their space with packages.

The time to move a package from India to Europe dropped from about 60 hours to 20 hours.

More than 280 big bags of packages have already been moved through the new system.

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Now more Indian cities like Bengaluru, Ahmedabad, Mumbai and Hyderabad can send things to far places like London and Copenhagen.

The new system makes the trip take less time, like from three days to one day.

It also lets planes carry more packages.

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9 words

transshipment

moving packages from one plane to another on the way to the final place

cargo

big items or boxes that are carried on airplanes

hub

a busy place where many planes meet and share packages

turnaround time

how quickly a plane can finish loading and start flying again

congestion

when there are too many planes or packages in one spot

proof of concept

a test that shows an idea works

metric tonne

a big weight equal to about 1,100 pounds

utilisation

how full the planes are with packages

security safeguards

extra rules that keep packages safe

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