Since global supply chains are competing with the escalating organizational complexity, speeding digitization and tightening environmental standards, one of the factors appeared as a decisive empowerment element of competitiveness: providing a skilled and ready -made workforce for compliance. In the export, drawing and logistical services sector in India – responsible for moving more than 450 million tons of shipping annually and contributing by 14-18 per cent of GDP – the talent gap is not just an issue of human resources but a structural obstacle to commercial growth. The challenge is doubled by the constant gender imbalance: less than 12 percent of the official logistical workforce is women, with less representation in technical and operational management roles.
A new triple cooperation signed on August 11, 2025 in Bon is aimed at addressing both the inability of skills and gender disparity, as he placed human capital as an essential element in the logistical policy agenda in India. Softlink Academy, Training arm, for the global charging technology provider Softlink Global; EXIM Management Services, Customs Rearcification Consulting; Customs; SNDT Ladies College, part of SNDT Women’s University of 109. The coalition will integrate the industry -based Exim training in higher education, and combines academic institutions with actual time exposure to operational systems.
Merging skills development with trade facilitation
The partnership is designed to include the practical training made by the system within the curriculum. Students will get practical experience using Logi-SYS, the ERP platform based on the Softlink Global Global Global Global Global Plastic Plastic Plastic Plastic, Customs mediation, storage, transportation, financing, and compliance. Training units will cover the lifestyle of the shipping cycle, customs documents, organizational frameworks, financial operations and the functioning of digital charging-the increasingly indispensable capabilities for air freight professionals who move in border trade.
Amit Mahshwari, founder and CEO of Softlink Global, is framed as a strategic rapprochement of knowledge, training and technology: “Knowledge is the basis of progress, but when it is combined with practical experience and digital tools, it becomes a strong power of transformation.
From the perspective of politics, these industry and academy ties have effects on India’s obligations under the Facilitation Facilitation Agreement (TFA). Skilled employees can accelerate clearance times, reduce periods of goods and ensure compatibility with frameworks such as WCO. This directly supports the goal of the national logistical policy (NLP) of reducing the cost of logistics in India to 8 percent of GDP from current estimates ranging between 13 and 14 percent.
The operational necessities of Air Cargo
For the air freight sector – which deals with goods that are worth more than 6 trillion US dollars worldwide every year – the quality of the workforce directly affects the flexibility and reliability of commercial corridors. The E-Electronic Road Documentation (E-AWB) and data accuracy are very important to maintain service standards in sectors such as drugs, damageable materials, and high-value electronics.
For Anand Paranjape, the owner of Services Exim Management, the value lies in the alignment of best practices in the industry with modern systems: “Where the process of practical process meets digital accuracy, we form Exim specialists ready in the future equipped to lead with insight and innovation.”
The inclusion of operational training in the workflow based on planning for institutions resources can limit the movement to productivity for new appointments, which reduces operating times for shipping applicants, ground treatments and flight shipping teams. This is particularly closely close, as the Air demand in Asia and the Pacific, an increase of 5.8 per cent, on an annual basis in early 2025 (WorldAr), where India international sizes outperformed the regional average. Maintaining this growth will depend on operational efficiency as it depends on physical infrastructure.
Gender difference treatment in logistical workforce
Globally, women represent about 39 percent of the total workforce (International Labor Organization Data), but their participation in transportation and logistics is behind the knees, and often declines to less than 15 percent in operational roles. In India, both cultural perceptions, limited access to targeted training and lack of organized functional tracks contributed to this representation.
SNDT Women’s University has put this initiative in a broader social and economic framework: “An enlightened woman is an infinite source of strength. We enable practical skills, digital tools and ready -made knowledge of the industry.”
By focusing on women’s technical training in heavy Exim jobs in compliance, the program supports the goal of the United Nations sustainable development on gender equality as diversity in an industry facing a sharp shortage of employment. Studies from the International Transport Forum show that gender diversity teams improve decisions and problem solving, especially in complex operating environments such as air freight centers.
Dimensions of politics and sustainability
The initiative is also compatible with the priorities of sustainability in the air transport industry. The digitization on shipping operations, including the transition to EWBS, is a central zero-iATA central panel.
On the organizational aspect, familiarity with both local policies and international agreements – such as the extension of the European Union EU -Emps (ETS) extension – will be of increased importance for professionals charged with compliance with maintaining service efficiency.
Local influence and capacity building
The immediate effect of cooperation will be more clear in the Pune, where students will reach the integrated training training, but its long -term effects extend across the logistics network in India. By creating a pipeline of graduates ready to enter the mid -skill and supervisory roles, the Make in India and Gati Shakti Framworks support, both of which depend on effective logistics services to attract investment and expand access to markets.
The model also carries the possibility of repetition in other dense cities such as Mumbai, Delhi and Chinai, as air cargo productivity continues to grow. According to the numbers of the airport body in India, flying air sizes in India have grown at an annual growth rate of about 6 percent over the past decade, as international goods constitute nearly two -thirds of the total.
Fast food policy for air freight professionals
For the stakeholders in air transport, commercial policy and sustainability, cooperation provides three main meals:
Human capital is critical infrastructure – investment in training and the diversity of workforce can result in measurable gains in clearance times, accuracy of documents and compliance.
Merging digital systems into education is essential – as freight processes become increasingly automated, ensuring early exposure to operating platforms preparedness of the workforce and reduces the costs of mobility.
Sex inclusion is a social and economic matter – the expansion of women’s participation in filling the talent gap while enhancing organizational performance and innovation helps.
Forms to develop logistical services 4.0
The Women’s College of Women is more than just a training program; It is a specific policy intervention designed to expand the ability of the workforce, accelerate digital adoption and improve diversity in a central sector in the commercial competitiveness of India.
For the professionals of air freight policies, the model explains how the human capital strategy can be integrated into the periods of facilitating trade and wider sustainability. With the logistical services sector to Logistics 4.0-which is characterized by automation and exchange of data in actual time and integrated multimedia operations-the availability of the workforce is fluently and ready to comply and decisively varied such as investments in airports, warehouses and shipping lens.
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