A Boeing 767-300 cargo plane took off from the Ezhou Huahu Airport in central China’s Hubei Province at 11:36 a.m. Sunday, marking the official start of operations of China’s first professional cargo hub airport. Located in the city of Ezhou, it is also the first professional cargo hub airport in Asia and the fourth of its kind in the world.
The new airport, equipped with a cargo terminal of 23,000 square meters, a freight transit center of nearly 700,000 square meters, 124 parking stands and two runways, is expected to improve the transport efficiency of air freight and further promote the country’s opening up. The operation of Ezhou Huahu Airport conforms to the needs of China’s development, said Su Xiaoyan, senior director of the airport’s planning and development department.
The number of parcels handled by China’s courier companies hit a record high of over 108 billion last year, and is expected to maintain stable growth in 2022, according to the State Post Bureau. The functions of the Ezhou airport are benchmarked against the Memphis International Airport in the United States, one of the world’s busiest cargo airports. SF Express, China’s leading logistics service provider, plays a crucial role at the Ezhou airport, much like how FedEx Express handles the majority of cargo at the Memphis International Airport. SF Express holds a 46 percent stake in Hubei International Logistics Airport Co., Ltd., the operator of Ezhou Huahu Airport. The logistics service provider has independently built a freight transport transit center, a cargo sorting center and an aviation base at the new airport. SF Express also plans to process the majority of its packages through the new airport in the future.- Xinhua
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