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for export to Europe and the US, with trade turnover estimated at more than US$40 billion a year. Since HP and Foxconn signed up another big name – consumer electronic giant Cisco Systems – has come onboard to help spur Chongqing’s drive to be an IT hub. The transport committee estimated that the daily cargo
transportation volume for the airport working to handle this expansion would hit 320 tons, needing four Boeing 747-400Fs to handle the lift. The idea has some officials even suggesting that in years to come the city’s nascent air cargo sector could rival that of Shanghai. So rapid has been the evolution of this Yangtze River
city into a centre for IT exports to sit alongside its proven automotive background that local authorities there are now setting up a cargo airline to cope with projected shipments. The Chongqing Municipal Foreign Economic and
Trade Commission revealed: “We are negotiating with major domestic airlines about setting up a joint venture professional cargo transportation company.” The authority did not give any more details. The city already has a local passenger carrier, Chongqing Airlines, which is 60 percent owned by Guangzhou-headquartered China Southern.
wrote that the giant US metropolis of Chicago was first established as “a gateway to vast and largely undeveloped lands to its west, a hub where the traffic of roads, rail lines and waterways converged, and a centre for business where ambition eviscerated risk”. Chongqing “is all of these things”, Kynge emphasised. Now, this huge city is just one of a list of Chinese industrial centres preparing to connect with the rest of the world through the introduction of direct air routes. Jade Cargo is a big player at Chongqing’s neighbour, Chengdu, which is also touting itself as a western air cargo gateway. At present, Jade operates two cargo routes from the gateway: Chengdu - Hong Kong and Chengdu - Vienna - Amsterdam. The company said it will enlarge its market share in Chengdu on these two routes to develop the city as a cargo transportation hub in western China. Last December, the Chengdu municipal government
signed a strategic co-operation agreement with Jade, allowing the carrier to open a variety of routes from the city to Europe. An official from Jade Cargo said that Chengdu has
great potential in the air freight business as one of the top economic entities in western China. As the largest air cargo hub in the region, its two-year-old air cargo terminal, stretching over an area of 11 hectares, can handle 380,000 tons of freight a year.
WUHAN – GIANT AMBITION Wuhan is spending RMB14.6 billion (US$2.15 billion) to construct the largest air hub in central China. Wuhan officials aim to make their city the fourth-busiest cargo hub in China, after Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. The third phase of the expansion under way at Wuhan
Shenzhen’s Jade Cargo calls at Vienna Last September, Shenzhen-based B747-400F operator
Jade Cargo opened two international air freight routes to Europe: Dubai - Chongqing - Hong Kong - Brescia - Frankfurt and Dubai - Chongqing - Hong Kong - Chongqing - Vienna - Amsterdam. Jade can now expect some local competition. In his book ‘China Shakes The World’, James Kynge, the former China bureau chief for the Financial Times,
Tianhe airport laid its foundation stone on 10 May and the whole development is scheduled to be finished by 2015. At that time, Tianhe will be the only airport in central China to have a double runway. Wuhan has been listed by the country’s state council as the first pilot city to become a genuine integrated transport hub in China. Geographically, it sits in the middle of the nation, with the Yangtze flowing east - west and with major rail lines bisecting the metropolis on a north - south axis. The airport’s master plan sees it handling 440,000 tons
of mail and cargo a year by 2020. The planned second runway will be 3,600 metres long and 60 metres wide, with
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