Skyways Group

1. What is the biggest opportunity you see for Indo-French business collaboration by 2030? How is your company preparing for it?

The biggest opportunity for Indo-French collaboration by 2030 lies in building stronger, smarter and more resilient trade corridors between India, France and the larger European market. 

This momentum has been further reinforced by the recent meeting between Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron in Nice, where both leaders reviewed the progress of the India-France partnership and discussed deeper cooperation across economic growth, technology, innovation, talent mobility and people-to-people exchanges. The decision to work towards doubling bilateral trade within the next five years clearly reflects the growing ambition behind this partnership. 

India is emerging as a major manufacturing and export hub, and this shift is already visible across sectors. From advanced manufacturing and engineering to defence and aerospace, India’s capabilities are expanding rapidly. With defence exports crossing around USD 4 billion in the last financial year and Make in India-led supply chains gaining strength, there is significant scope for collaboration with France, especially in aerospace, defence, technology, healthcare, luxury, sustainability and industrial manufacturing. 

France brings deep expertise in innovation, advanced engineering, aviation, luxury, healthcare and sustainability. India brings scale, manufacturing capability, talent and a fast-growing export base. The opportunity now is not only to increase trade volumes, but to create future-ready partnerships supported by efficient logistics, multimodal infrastructure and trusted supply chain solutions. 

By 2030, logistics will not just support Indo-French trade; it will actively help shape the partnership. 

2. In today’s evolving global landscape, how are you building resilience and agility in your leadership strategy?

In today’s world, leadership cannot be built on predictability alone. Geopolitical changes, capacity disruptions, regulatory shifts, and changing customer expectations have made resilience and agility essential. 

Logistics is about creating solutions! 

Skyways plays a lead role in the Indian Logistics ecosystem and always remains agile and nimble footed to create solutions for customers across Air Cargo, Shipping and surface transportation solutions across all geographies of the world. 

Our ethos has always centered on connectivity, speed, and visibility.  

I have been laying strong emphasis on my team to constantly understand customer needs, adopt technology changes, introduce new processes, integrate with stakeholders across the supply chains, and ensure better coordination between our people, partners, and customers. 

We have been strong solution creators, not just service providers. For us, resilience comes from building the capability to offer customers the fastest and most efficient way to move their goods, even when market conditions change. 

For me, agility is not about reacting fast only when disruption happens. It is about building an organisation that can anticipate customer needs and create solutions before the challenge becomes a bottleneck. 

3. With sustainability and innovation now essential to business success, could you share some recent initiatives your company has undertaken in these areas?

For Skyways Group, sustainability and innovation are not separate ideas; they are becoming part of how modern logistics must operate. 

On the innovation side, we have invested significantly in in-house technology development. Our technology platforms are fully integrated with major airline and shipping lines. This helps us get real time tracking, data integrity, and analytics-led decision-making, strengthening our logistics solutions by making them more transparent, efficient, and responsive. 

We are also strengthening multimodal logistics, which allows customers to choose smarter combinations of air, ocean, road, and express solutions depending on time, cost, and environmental considerations. 

On the sustainability front, we are taking practical steps across our operations. In road freight, we are already using energy-efficient and alternate fuel options such as CNG and electric vehicles. We have also introduced a carpooling platform for our teams, to help reduce the environmental impact of daily commuting. 

We are also using more solar energy across our infrastructure and exploring sensors and automation to improve energy efficiency within our office premises. These steps may look operational, but together they help reduce energy waste and build more responsible business practices. 

Beyond this, our focus remains on better route planning, improved consolidation, reduced inefficiencies, technology-led visibility, and more disciplined supply chain planning. Sustainability in logistics begins with removing waste from the system: wasted time, wasted capacity, wasted movement, and wasted energy. 

4. With 2026 being celebrated as the Indo-French Year of Innovation, how do you envision this initiative creating new opportunities for growth and collaboration?

The Indo-French Year of Innovation is a timely and important initiative because both countries have complementary strengths. 

France has a strong innovation ecosystem in aerospace, mobility, sustainability, luxury, design, healthcare, and technology. India has scale, talent, entrepreneurship, manufacturing capability, and one of the world’s fastest-growing consumer and digital markets. 

The real opportunity lies in the synergy between the two countries. When India’s scale, manufacturing strength, and market depth connect with France’s innovation, technology, design, and advanced industrial capabilities, it can create powerful new opportunities for both sides. 

This synergy can help connect businesses, institutions, startups, manufacturers, and innovators across both countries. It can also create stronger trade flows, better industrial partnerships, and new models of collaboration across sectors such as aerospace, defence, healthcare, clean energy, consumer goods, and technology. 

This initiative can create opportunities not only for large companies, but also for SMEs, startups, educational institutions, logistics players, and technology-led businesses. 

Innovation must also extend to how goods move, how supply chains are designed, and how businesses access markets. Efficient logistics is critical for innovation to become commercially successful. 

As Indo-French collaboration grows, reliable trade solutions, stronger supply chain connectivity, and technology-enabled logistics will become important enablers. Whether it is aerospace components, healthcare products, retail goods, high-value cargo, or e-commerce movement, logistics will play a key role in supporting this next phase of growth.

5. As a CEO, how do you view India’s role in your global growth strategy, and what strategic advantages does the country offer your business or industry?

While Skyways Group has charted a route towards becoming a top global MNC, with operations across geographies over the next two decades, India remains central to our global growth strategy. 

India offers a rare combination of young and experienced talent, strong manufacturing potential, digital adoption, policy support and rising consumption. It is not only a large domestic market, but also emerging as a serious global export and supply chain hub. 

For the logistics industry, this creates a powerful opportunity. As India manufactures more, exports more, consumes more and integrates deeper with global value chains, the need for strong logistics infrastructure will only continue to grow. 

Skyways Group today has a presence and its own operations in 30+ cities in India and 12 countries around the globe. Over the last decade, we have expanded our overseas footprint to support customers across important global trade lanes. This international expansion allows us to serve Indian companies going global, as well as international companies looking at India as a serious growth market. 

In Europe, we already have a presence in Germany and the UK, and we are looking at other markets to further expand our footprint. France is a strong opportunity because of its strategic position in Europe and its leadership across several key sectors and commodities, offering us significant potential to serve this geography with our logistics solutions. 

Skyways Group has spent over four decades building capabilities across India, offering air freight, ocean freight, road transport, express logistics, warehousing, e-commerce logistics, healthcare logistics and fulfilment. This gives us a strong foundation to support both Indian companies going global and international companies entering or expanding in India.