Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport’s cross border e-commerce volumes doubled in the initial seven months of the yr and it expects a further more improve in the last five months thanks to the addition of more freighter flights.
The Chinese airport taken care of a whole of 93,000 tonnes of cross-border e-commerce website traffic amongst January and July – up 101% yr on yr – many thanks in aspect to the addition past yr of a Beoing 777 freighter flight jointly operated by Central Airlines and e-commerce logistics firm YunExpress.
At the finish of July, the two partner airways extra a 2nd 777 freighter to the operation which ought to boost volumes additional.
The further freighter will be applied to increase the frequency of the airlines’ Shenzhen-Paris service from 3 flights for every 7 days to 6 flights per 7 days.
Meanwhile, their Shenzhen-Riyadh route will improve from a person to two flights for each week.
“The weekly outbound transportation capability from Shenzhen Airport to Paris, France and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia will be improved to about 600 tons and 200 tons respectively, mostly carrying numerous cross-border e-commerce goods from Shenzhen, developing a far more efficient and easy air passage for Shenzhen cross-border e-commerce enterprises to develop into the European and Middle Japanese markets,” the airport claimed.
Shenzhen-based mostly Central Airlines operates 6 freighters on five routes: Shenzhen to Riyadh, Clark (Philippines), Davao (Philippines), Jakarta and Paris.
The advancement in e-commerce volumes follows a focus on the visitors at the airport.
Considering that the commencing of this yr, Shenzhen Airport has noticed the addition of five new international freighter routes and amplified the frequency of 5 existing solutions.
The airport stated that 7 of these additions are cross-border e-commerce routes: from Shenzhen to Paris, Liege, Sao Paulo, London, Davao, Tel Aviv, and Riyadh.
In full, the airport features 35 global and regional freighter routes.
Digital solutions account for roughly 40% of Shenzhen’s cross-border e-commerce goods.
To cater to this demand from customers, the airport is piloting the implementation of a new product for lithium battery cargo air transportation utilizing the battery safety examination report (UN38.3) in China – a UN security take a look at for the transport of the battery form.
“Shenzhen Airport excels in understanding the pain points and voices of market entities, actively marketing a collection of improvements and pilot initiatives, and opening up a route for the safe and sound and practical transportation of cross-border e-commerce merchandise made up of lithium batteries at domestic airports.” Zhang Jiaoyun, secretary normal of the Shenzhen cross-border e-commerce Association, explained.
The airport is also selling the design of a” digital categorical logistics park” and is cooperating with customs to digitalise the convey mail approach and respond to the quick growth of cross-border e-commerce small business volume.
And it is trialling the first air cross-border e-commerce enterprise processing zone customized for cross-border e-commerce enterprises in China.
“This project is the 1st air transportation centre in China that specialises in dealing with cross-border e-commerce merchandise and has cargo terminal functions,” the airport stated.
“It can insert 200,000 tons of air categorical and cross-border e-commerce cargo processing capacity to Shenzhen Airport each individual 12 months, which will more boost the superior-good quality progress of Shenzhen’s trade and cross-border e-commerce market.”
YunExpress has set up in the zone and has a totally automated assembly line.
“Shenzhen Airport has offered us with a good system and help for company progress, and we are also optimistic about the cross-border e-commerce field and the market place in Shenzhen in the extended time period. As a result, we have comprehensively amplified our investment in Shenzhen Airport from amenities to transportation potential, ” claimed Xiong Jin, standard manager of YunExpress aviation business device.
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