Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, inaugurated the new integrated terminal building of Surat Airport and the Surat Diamond Bourse (SDB) on Sunday, 17 December 2023.
The Surat Diamond Bourse will be the world's largest and modern centre for international diamond and jewellery business, as per an official statement. It will be a global centre for trading of both rough and polished diamonds as well as jewellery.
The new integrated terminal building at the Surat airport is equipped to handle 1,200 domestic passengers and 600 international passengers during peak hours and has a provision for further increasing the peak hour capacity to 3,000 passengers with the annual handling capacity increasing to 5.5 million passengers.
It will comprise a state-of-the-art ‘Customs Clearance House' for import and export, jewellery mall for retail jewellery business and facility of international banking and safe vaults.
Aruna Gaitonde, Editor in Chief of the Asian Bureau, Rough & Polished
