SPECIAL REPORT: LAND USE
In addition to a planned cargo facilities expansion by China Airlines
and Eva Airways, Farglory Holdings has already invested over $150 million in completing Phase I of its Free Trade Zone logistics complex. The complex, operating under a 50-year Build, Operate
Transfer (BOT) concession, includes the world’s largest single-story automated air cargo terminal, a value-added logistics park (two buildings) and international distribution express warehouse and support facilities. Phase II, scheduled for completion by the end of this decade, will
include additional value-adding logistics facilities, a forwarder’s building and a major business centre. TPE plans to expropriate land for an expanded FTZ area adjacent
to the Farglory FTZ. The area will house firms in time critical distribution, merchandise testing and certification, vendor-managed inventories, business process outsourcing (such as printing and distributing credit card replacements and payment request forms), e-commerce fulfilment and value-adding logistics services like kitting or labelling for re-export. Although remaining a subsidiary of the Taiwanese government,
the newly established Taoyuan International Airport Corporation (TIAC), Ltd has greater autonomy than its predecessor. The change puts it in a better position to negotiate and execute contracts with concessionaires, consulting firms and construction companies in a quick, more agile fashion. It will also be able to hire and promote talented individuals based
on performance. In short, the new airport company is set up to do business the way business does business. It is anticipated that TIAC will eventually be listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange Corporation, enabling private sector
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investment and returns, which should further encourage improved airport performance. Privatisation (partial or full) could also provide additional airport revenues
for future facility modernisation and infrastructure expansion. The new airport company is expected to co-ordinate closely
with those involved in broader aerotropolis development. This will promote stronger synergies between inside-the-fence and outside-the-fence developments. The success of an airport city rests as much on surface transport
connectivity as it does on air connectivity. The Taiwanese government, together with Taoyuan County transportation planners have therefore been diligent in specifying highway and light rail improvements to TPE and throughout the region. These include highway upgrades connecting the airport to Taiwan and
other major regional commercial nodes, not to mention a series of airport circular roads efficiently connecting each of the aerotropolis functional zones. In 2014, the Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport Access MRT system will
connect TPE to downtown Taiwan (in approximately 30 minutes) and other key regional nodes. The MRT will serve all three terminal locations at TPE as well as Taiwan’s
high-speed rail system some seven kilometres away. Such fast and efficient airport access to the broader northern Taiwan
region will bring important commercial centres from metro Taiwan to the north to the Hsinchu Industrial Park (Taiwan’s Silicon Valley) to the south within the aerotropolis orbit, making a much more geographically expansive airport- integrated economic region. The goal of the government is for this expanded aerotropolis to be
Taiwan’s primary infrastructure asset and to compete in the globally connected, speed driven economy of the 21st century.
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