(China Daily)
Updated: 2008-06-16 08:18

New Baiyun will continue to offer subsidies to cargo airlines to start more freighter routes and will open a cargo station in Dongguan for Customs clearance in a bid to lower costs. The station will be linked to the cargo center at New Baiyun through an information platform. By the end of this year FedEx is expected to begin operations at its cargo terminal.

Chen Xiaoning, vice-president of Guangdong Airport Management Corporation, said the airport has reserved space for cargo development near the fourth runway, which will start construction this year and will be completed by 2010.

At Pudong Airport, handling capacity has been the main challenge even though the western part of the airport provided 1.2 million tons of additional cargo capacity this month following the opening of the third runway.

Bettina Ganghofer, deputy general manager of the Shanghai Pudong Airport Cargo Terminal, said a 140,000 sq m warehouse will be built with more facilities for perishable cargo in the western part of the airport.

In central China, the airports in Wuhan and Zhengzhou will be upgraded as regional centers. And Shenyang's Taoxian International Airport will assume the role of an air center for Northeast China.

Of the 97 new airports, more than half will be built in Southwest and Northwest China to speed up development of domestic traffic. Among them, Kunming will be made a gateway airport, linking China with South Asia and Southeast Asia, and will be supported by the airports in Chengdu and Chongqing.

Urumqi in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region will play an identical role as Kunming to promote trade between China and Central Asia, and its supporters will be the airports in Xi'an and Lhasa.

Source: Logistics China, a monthly English review published by Chinadaily.com.cn.

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