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percent year-on-year to 264,200 tons. China Eastern Airlines signed a
strategic co-operation agreement in late September, which aims to increase total cargo throughput at Shanghai’s Pudong International and Hongqiao airports to 5.5 million tons by 2015, with Pudong and Hongqiao targeting 4.75 million tons and 750,000 tons respectively. China Eastern is by no means alone in its keenness to grow freight volumes out of Shanghai. China Southern, the nation’s largest airline,
has committed to taking a larger slice of the Shanghai cargo pie, while Air China and Cathay Pacific are teaming up to form a Shanghai-headquartered cargo joint venture. It is in Shanghai that the fiercest competition for freight business will occur in the coming years. The Shanghai airport authority also
intends to speed up the construction of the fourth and fifth runways at the Pudong gateway, something that should make officials in Hong Kong take notice.
which now operates in the skies as Shunfeng Aviation. It started out with two B757-200 freighters. When contacted in mid-August the firm revealed it now owns 14 cargo aircraft and is covering most regions of China, as well as expanding overseas. “On 1 February and 1 April this year, the company launched two international routes to South Korea and
Singapore. The freighters for these routes come from our own 14 carriers,” an official from SF Express said. Shenzhen Airport Co, the airport operator, said it
handled 70,500 tons of cargo in August, a rise of 32 percent from a year earlier. During the first eight months of the year, cargo and mail throughput jumped 38.4 percent year- on-year to 516,800 tons.
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