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seeing demand grow by a “weak” 12.1 percent from a year ago, less than half the 25.3 percent increase seen by Asia/Pacific airlines and the 27.1 percent year-on-year improvement recorded by North American carriers. Global air cargo traffic climbed 22.4 percent in July
compared to a year ago but the pace of recovery is likely to slow toward the end of the year, IATA said. US investment bank JP Morgan broke the July figures
down, looking at the volume progression on a two-year stacked basis to year-on-year comparisons. The trend on this basis shows that July was above June but below May and, consequently, with the exception of May 2010, July was the second-best month since May 2008. The 15 July reduction in Chinese export VAT rebates may have provided a temporary boost to export activity in China. China and the US have signed an expanded aviation
agreement that will, in the coming 12 months, see many more flights across the Pacific. The fastest movers have been China’s second-tier airlines - those just below the big three state-run airlines. Four carriers have applied to the CAAC (Civil Aviation Administration of China) to operate on the transpacific sector in the past couple of months, in a move that will further intensify competition. Shanghai Airlines Cargo, Hainan Airlines, Jade Cargo
International and Great Wall Airlines have all pitched for a slice of American business, according to a statement from the CAAC regulator. Shanghai Airlines Cargo – a joint venture between Shanghai Airlines and EVA Air of Taiwan – is scheduled to fly from Shanghai Pudong to Los Angeles via Anchorage beginning in September and to Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) via Anchorage from next April. Jade started operating a Shenzhen - Pudong - Portland - DFW - Portland - Pudong routeing and a Shenzhen - Anchorage - Chicago O’Hare flight in June. In March next year, Great Wall anticipates flying its
freighters to Los Angeles and Orlando via Shanghai - Seoul - Anchorage and since 8 June Hainan has been operating
passenger flights between Beijing and Seattle, its first-ever US destination. Under the expanded Sino-American aviation pact, China
has been given another seven cargo routes to the US. China Southern, the nation’s number one airline, started
operating a freighter service to Los Angeles on 28 August using a B777-200F. The Los Angeles connection is from Shanghai, a city where the airline is keen to gain a greater cargo share. Elsewhere in China, other airports are starting to make
an impact on the transpacific. Qingdao airport in the north-east of China, for instance, has big ambitions to form freighter links with airports all over the world. US-based Atlas Air officially launched a direct cargo flight to Houston from Qingdao on 16 May, using a B747-200F and giving the gateway its first-ever intercontinental direct route. Currently, the airport is negotiating with the largest
airlines in the US, Germany and China – respectively Delta Air Lines, Lufthansa, and China Southern – to open more international routes. An official from the Qingdao gateway said: “The cargo
business of Qingdao airport is developing very well. Last year, the airport achieved a cargo throughput of 135,000 tons. It is expected to reach 150,000 tons this year. At present, Qingdao airport is in talks with many airlines to open another intercontinental route by the end of this year or early in 2011.” Expect also to hear of another Chinese airport making
transpacific waves very soon. Chongqing in the west of China is understood to be in advanced negotiations for a debut American freight route. The municipality, the world’s largest with 32 million people, has increasingly positioned itself as an IT hub, with the likes of HP and Intel investing billions of dollars in the city over the past couple of years. Routes to America and Europe to ship all the laptops being made in Chongqing are on the cards for the near future. Middle America is increasingly being targeted by Asian airlines. Cathay Pacific selected Chicago as the
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