One day to the whole country, overnight to the world! Asia's first specialized cargo airport officia

  NEWS     |      2022-02-25


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According to reports, after a 107-minute flight from Shenzhen Baoan airport, SF Airlines all-cargo plane B767 landed smoothly on the west runway of Ezhou Huahu Airport. This marks the official operation of Ezhou Huahu Airport, the first professional cargo airport in Asia, and the official navigation of the first professional cargo hub in Asia and the fourth in the world. The goods are expected to achieve the goal of "reaching the country in one day and reaching the world overnight". It is understood that SF Air Logistics will take Ezhou Huahu Airport as the hub, and lay out four regional airports in four directions, including Beijing, Shenzhen, Hangzhou and Chengdu, to build a "1+4" development model, and boost Ezhou from the airport economy to the hub economy. At the same time, this year Ezhou Huahu Airport will gradually open Ezhou to Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Xiamen, Chongqing, Chengdu, Kunming, Qingdao, Ningbo and other passenger routes, Ezhou to Shenzhen, Shanghai, Frankfurt, Osaka and other cargo routes. Ezhou Huahu Airport is designed to meet the requirements of a passenger throughput of 1 million and a cargo throughput of 2.45 million tons in 2025. According to the data released by the Civil Aviation Administration of China, in 2021, the total cargo and mail throughput of civil transport airports across the country will be 17.828 million tons. Among the 248 airports, only 4 airports have an annual cargo throughput of more than 1 million tons, of which Shanghai Pudong Airport is 3,982,600 tons, Guangzhou Baiyun Airport is 2,044,900 tons, Shenzhen Bao 'an Airport ranks third with 1,568,300 tons, and Beijing Capital Airport is 1,401,300 tons. The airport will take cargo as the main passenger transport as the supplement, the global express giant, the hub of the United States fedex Memphis International Airport, has opened about 10 international cargo routes, about 50 domestic routes, and gradually become the international first-class air cargo hub, and strive to build a new logistics high ground in China and even the Asia-Pacific region. At the same time, it will fully connect with the Optical Valley Science and Technology Innovation Corridor, promote the development of airport economy in Wuhan, Ezhou, Huanggang, Huangshi and other places in the Wuhan metropolitan area, and form an industrial agglomeration area and a new economic growth pole. From the perspective of international experience, as the express delivery industry gradually shifts from price competition to service quality competition and from domestic market competition to international market competition, its own air transport network will be the key to future industry competition. Therefore, in addition to SF Express, other express logistics companies are also stepping up to build their own aviation hubs, and the "air war" in the express industry has intensified. In August last year, the Jiaxing airport renovation and expansion project was approved, YTO has signed a contract with the Jiaxing city government to build an air logistics hub, Hangzhou YTO Cargo Airlines Co LTD also began to introduce long-range wide-body freighters this year. Jiangsu Jingdong Cargo Air has also officially entered the document review stage, in January this year, a Boeing 737-800F passenger cargo model has been delivered to the Jingdong Air is still in the preparation period. Jd.com will build a JD Logistics air cargo hub at Nantong airport, and plans to build a super airport in Wuhu. As the "national team", China Post Aviation Co., Ltd. currently operates 29 narrow-body freighters, but it has also quietly issued a tender announcement for Boeing 777F model training through its partners not long ago, and it is obviously possible to become the operator of this powerful long-range wide-body freighter in the near future.