2010-11-11
at present, sinotrans air transportation development co., ltd. invests 123 million rmb to build sinotrans development qingdao airport logistics centre around qingdao liuting international airport of shandong, which will be completed and put into operation by 2011. after operation, this center will be used to develop the business related to public bonded warehouse and exit supervision warehouse.
till now, much near-airport logistics and industrial economy has quickly gathered around qingdao airport. for example, sinotrans air logistics, customs supervision warehouse and post express etc. have entered airport logistics park where there are 100 plus logistics enterprises are located, which leads to fast growth of passenger and cargo handling capacity of qingdao liuting airport in recent years with the average annual growth rate of over 20%.
geographical advantages lead to formation of large logistics.
sources from qingdao airport air freight department said that many famous air logistics enterprises settle down in qingdao just because of the superior geographical advantages of qingdao airport. qingdao airport is a kind of assistant type regional pivot located in north china, covering the whole shandong peninsula. till now, qingdao airport has strong near-sea line transshipment and operation capability and geographically superior in direct flights to japan, korea and taiwan and transshipment to europe and america.
by now, due to the geographical advantages of qingdao, there are many large logistics projects settled down in qingdao such as prologis, ups, sinotrans, and cosco etc. whose operations are large in scale, high in added value and strong in influence. take sinotrans as example, the intended sinotrans development qingdao airport logistics center will operate the services related to public bonded warehouse and export supervision warehouse including bonded storage, international logistics distribution, simple processing and value-added services etc. and also provide strong support to the individualized comprehensive logistics services such as customs clearance through agency, declaration, cargo transportation, manifest pledge, finished products inventory management and supplier inventory management etc.
in order to attract the logistics enterprises, qingdao government is now taking initiative to prepare for project services work. now, qingdao is pushing to build airport comprehensive logistics park in a comprehensive way and revise near-airport economic zone planning to attract large logistics enterprises at home and abroad to invest in airfreight service facilities such as international freight, domestic freight, bonded logistics, trade processing, commodity display and management services etc. so as to lay a solid foundation for their settlement in qingdao.
get intercontinental lines to increase air freight
this year, qingdao airport implements the strategy of “active marketing” in a comprehensive way to develop new cargo and passenger sources and expand airline network. meanwhile, qingdao airport joins with airline companies to develop and set up new flights to europe and america and actively attract intercontinental charter flights and effectively push continuous growth of air freight quantity. the statistics show that qingdao airport completed cargo mailing throughput of 119 thousand tons between jan and sept. in this year with an increase of 26.24% over last year. it is estimated that the annual cargo mailing throughput will exceed 160 thousand tons, accounting for about 60% of the total cargo handling quantity of shandong civil aviation. additionally, the cargo mailing throughput is up to 15.6 thousand tons in sept. with average daily capacity of 520 tons.
at present, qingdao airport logistics business could extend to shandong, henan, south henan and north jiangsu etc. as well as to europe and america via japan and korean etc. the international business is not only point-to-point air freight but transshipment to destinations through qingdao airport. this year, qingdao airport will further use the geographical advantages and airline resources to build up cargo transfer pivot and develop cargo transshipment businesses so as to further improve transshipment functions and then push cargo mailing throughput to a higher level.
from this year on, qingdao airport has successfully completed three intercontinental direct cargo charter flights which indicates that qingdao airport has the capability to guarantee all-weather intercontinental jumbo planes in terms of flights guarantee and client service level and also accumulates rich experience for further opening of intercontinental scheduled flights.
with fast growth of national economy, our air transport businesses will enter a new period of fast growth. it is predicted that the air transport businesses will grow at high speed in the coming long period. therefore, there is large developing potential for air logistics. currently, qingdao airport is negotiating with delta air lines inc. deutsche lufthansa ag and china southern airlines company limited (china south for short) to open intercontinental scheduled flights as early as possible.
additionally, due to further gathering of famous logistics enterprises and continuous growth of air freights sources, qingdao airport air cargo department will take effective measures to improve their operating efficiency and forge a well-known cargo transshipment brand by launching the first 24-hour port-exit services in china to greatly improve logistics efficiency.