The reporter learned from Shanghai International Airport Co.Ltd(600009) group that in 2021, the annual cargo and mail throughput of Shanghai Pudong and Hongqiao airports reached 4.366 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 8.47%, exceeding the historical high of 4.23 million tons in 2017, breaking a new record of the support level of Shanghai air cargo hub, and contributing to the stability of the global industrial chain supply chain.
play the role of international freight hub and help stabilize the global supply chain
As the top three international air cargo hub in the world and the first in China, the cargo route network of Shanghai Pudong Airport covers 251 destinations in 48 countries / regions around the world. At present, 59 overseas airlines and 10 Chinese airlines operate international cargo business in Pudong airport. The inbound and outbound cargo volume of Pudong Airport accounts for 93.7% of the total, ensuring more than 40% of the inbound and outbound cargo volume of airports in China.
Against the background of tight shipping resources and poor flow under the impact of the global epidemic, Pudong Airport cargo terminal and Eastern Air Logistics Co.Ltd(601156) cargo terminal actively provide aviation logistics solutions with airlines, multinational enterprises in the industrial chain, well-known large enterprises in China and many small and medium-sized enterprises to ensure the transportation of high-precision materials and high value-added materials such as electronic products and parts, photoresist, medicine and so on, Maintain the stability of core key industries and foreign trade supply chain. Among them, it focuses on ensuring the air export and transportation of covid-19 vaccine, covering Europe, North America, Africa, Southeast Asia and other regions, which has played an important role in the global fight against covid-19 epidemic.
actively break through the bottleneck of air cargo capacity support
With the popularization and application of the “passenger to cargo” flight operation and support mode, the number of Chinese and foreign airlines carrying out the “passenger to cargo” business in Pudong Airport has increased to 42 in 2021, with an average of more than 100 “passenger to cargo” flights taking off and landing every day. The base Airlines China Eastern Airlines has invested more than 10000 flights in Pudong Airport, effectively supplementing the air capacity supply of Pudong airport.
At the same time, Shanghai International Airport Co.Ltd(600009) group relies on the global route network to further revitalize the cargo shift time resources, improve the waypoint distribution, and ensure the continuous line and point of freight routes. With the strong support of the East China Administration of civil aviation, actively promote the idle passenger transport time of Pudong airport to be used in the freight market. In order to relieve the pressure of airport freight support from 0:00 to 6:00, cargo shifts are actively arranged to take off and land during the day from 6:00 to 23:00. The proportion of regular cargo shifts during this period is significantly increased, and freight inbound and outbound peaks are gradually formed during the day from 7:00 to 9:00, 12:00 to 14:00, 16:00 and 21:00.
science and technology enabled epidemic prevention
Under the condition that the cargo volume continues to operate at a high level, Shanghai International Airport Co.Ltd(600009) Group continues to optimize and upgrade the normal long-term mechanism for epidemic prevention and control, and has developed the “healthy airport” information management system in the freight area, which brings more than 200 freight enterprises and more than 20000 employees into unified information management and is dynamically updated at any time. Through the real-time integration of new technologies such as face recognition and personal health information such as nucleic acid detection and vaccination, the closed management and precise prevention and control of freight area are comprehensively strengthened.
(CCTV news client)
