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year, up by 39.3 percent year-on-year. Guangzhou-based China Southern has also recently
boosted its freighter reach. On 24 July, the Chinese carrier launched a four times a week freighter service between Guangzhou and Amsterdam. On 28 August, it added a Shanghai to Los Angeles freighter flying three times a week. Bolstered by the arrival of UPS, Shenzhen airport is
confident that it can now push ahead and climb up the the global air cargo league. New airport chairman Wang Yang has set out an agenda to make the airport a world- class facility within the next two and a half years. This will see the construction of a second runway and a third terminal opened. Last year, mail and cargo throughput broke 600,000 tons,
making the airport the 24th-busiest in the world in terms of air freight handled. The goal for this year is 700,000 tons. By the end of May the airport had handled 310,000 tons. This year has seen the launch of the new UPS Asia Pacific
hub at the airport as well as a bonded logistics facility. At 89,000m2
, the UPS hub is the integrator’s largest in Asia
– from where it now operates 78 flights every week. It is a little-known fact that the rather anonymous city of Dongguan, sandwiched in the middle of the Pearl River
Delta, is China’s third-largest exporting powerhouse after Shanghai and Shenzhen. Now, with the recent unveiling of Shenzhen Airport Dongguan Terminal, shippers have a faster way to reach overseas markets. Located in the Nancheng district of Dongguan, some 40 minutes by road from Shenzhen airport, the terminal offers services such as cargo examination, air waybill entering and ground transportation. At the cargo handling area of Shenzhen airport, there is a green channel for preferential processing of Dongguan cargo. But, despite all the fierce competition setting up around
it, Hong Kong International airport remains the pre- eminent cargo gateway in the region. The most recent figures available from Hong Kong
Air Cargo Terminals Limited (HACTL) show the Special Administrative Region is still a very powerful cargo hub. HACTL’s air cargo volume rose by 30.5 percent in June compared to a year earlier, as the global economic recovery boosted cargo traffic. The company handled 1.39 million tonnes of cargo in the
six months ended 30 June, up by 38.4 percent from a year earlier, and about 80 percent of the total air cargo volume that passes through Hong Kong International airport.
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