From December 7th to 8th, the IATA North Asia Cargo Day and Guangzhou International Air Cargo Hub High-quality Development Conference with the theme of "China Hub, Connecting the World" was held at the Pullman Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport. More than 180 units gathered together to share the new trend of air cargo development, share the cutting-edge standards and practices of air cargo, discuss the construction of a world-class air cargo hub, and help Guangzhou become the center of the global production and supply chainGlobal goods, gather in Guangzhou".
The conference was jointly sponsored by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) North Asia Region, Guangdong Airport Management Group, hereinafter referred to as "Guangdong Airport Group") and the people of Huadu District, Guangzhou, and organized by Guangdong Airport Group Logistics and China Southern Air Logistics Co., Ltd.
From December 7th to 8th, IATA North Asia Cargo Day and Guangzhou International Air Cargo Hub High-quality Development Conference was held in Guangzhou. Photo courtesy of the correspondent.
Seven major actions to build an international air cargo hub.
According to the industry, the Guangzhou International Air Cargo Hub is ushering in unprecedented industrial opportunities. As the largest logistics distribution center in South China, Guangzhou occupies the hinterland of the super-large market of Guangdong's trillion-yuan industry, and Baiyun Airport Port has become the first airport port in the country where cross-border e-commerce business has entered the 100 billion yuan mark, and the import scale has ranked first in the country for 9 consecutive years.
Under the blessing of favorable policies and strategic positioning such as "the first batch of cities to supplement and strengthen the chain of national comprehensive freight hubs", "airport-type national logistics hubs", "global aviation logistics centers, production and supply chain centers" and "northern growth poles of Guangzhou", the energy level has jumped and the magnitude has expanded, and the "first era" of Guangzhou international air freight has arrived.
Taking China Southern Airlines Group***, which has been deeply involved in the Guangzhou market for many years, as an example, in 2022, the company achieved a cargo throughput of 48 in Guangzhou50,000 tons, with a market share of 257%；In the just-concluded global retail carnival season, Guangdong's international export volume increased by 40% year-on-year, strongly supporting Guangdong's e-commerce to go overseas.
Facing the future, the main person in charge of Guangdong Airport Group said that Guangdong Airport Group will be the hub leader, and strive to implement seven major actions, including energy level jump, network expansion, digital intelligence leadership, efficiency change, customer value-added, industrial integration, and ecological renewal, to build an international air cargo hub with ultra-large capacity, passenger and cargo parallel drive, ultra-wide network, link inside and outside, ultra-high efficiency, green intelligence, advanced service, value symbiosis, over-speed drive, and industrial agglomeration.
At the meeting, witnessed by the guests, Guangdong Airport Group signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the International Air Transport Association (IATA), the people of Huadu District, Guangzhou, the Guangdong Branch of China Post Group, Shenzhen SF Tyson Holdings (Group), FedEx (China), YTO Aviation Group and other hub co-construction unitsGuangdong Airport Group Logistics Co., Ltd. signed a cooperation agreement with China Southern Air Logistics Co., Ltd. and China International Cargo Airlines Co., Ltd.
The signing event of the IATA CEIV lithium battery certification project was also held on the spot, and the "Guangzhou Air Cargo Industry Development" was released
The strength of air cargo "Guangzhou speed" is refreshed.
To build an international air cargo hub, Guangzhou Baiyun Airport has the strength and confidence. Since 2023, Baiyun Airport has successively set a new record of "three lines in three days" and "five lines in three days" of international cargo routes, and has opened 14 new cargo routes between Guangzhou and Chennai, New York, Madrid, and Milan. Up to now, Baiyun Airport has more than 60 cargo routes, and the route network covers more than 230 navigation points around the world. After the third phase of the expansion project of Baiyun Airport, which has attracted much attention, is completed and put into operation, the terminal cargo and mail throughput capacity of Baiyun Airport will reach 6 million tons.
Since 2023, Baiyun Airport has successively set a new record of "three lines in three days" and "five lines in three days" of international cargo routes. Photo courtesy of the correspondent.
The freight network connecting five continents and reaching all directions and the strong cargo and mail throughput energy level are far from enough for the construction of an international air cargo hub. "Fast is our most distinctive logo, the most essential dependence, and the most core pursuit. According to the main person in charge of Guangdong Airport Group, it takes an average of 63 minutes for a hairy crab to open the door of the aircraft to deliver the goods, and the efficiency has increased by 58%.
Since the beginning of this year, Guangdong Airport Group has also joined hands with the customs to compress the overall customs clearance guarantee time from the past 30 hours to less than 3 hours, setting a new speed for the industry's transportation securityThrough the green channel and digital intelligence empowerment, the 24-hour real-time supervision of the entry and exit of international and domestic goods has been realized, and the shortest waiting time for customers is only 5 minutes. This series of "hairy crab speed" has refreshed the strength of "Guangzhou speed" and won more development space for Guangzhou's air cargo market.
It was learned from the conference that the country's first cargo apron transit area located in Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, One Record and Baiyun Airport Digi-Cargo Digital Intelligence Integration were officially opened. The cargo apron transit area can realize that the goods can complete the transfer operation processes such as cargo transfer, cargo replenishment, and document bag production without arriving at the cargo station, making the transfer more convenient, smoother and more responsive.
The integration of ONE RECORD and Digi-Cargo at Baiyun Airport focuses on building Baiyun Airport into the world's leading "digital cargo" airport. This means that the cargo data of Baiyun Airport will take the lead in realizing end-to-end synchronization, visual tracking, full-chain transparency, and virtual and real twin in the world's first-class chain system. In the future, the cargo data of Baiyun Airport can be reached with one touch and one code within the global ** chain, which will ultimately help improve the logistics efficiency of the entire production and supply chain.
On the same day, the construction of FedEx South China Operation Center officially started. The project will cover an area of more than 410,000 square meters, and it is expected to sort up to 250,000 import and export parcels and documents, with sorting efficiency three times the processing capacity of the existing Guangzhou port operation center.
As the main person in charge of Guangdong Airport Group said, "speed up is just the beginning, 'fast' is the eternal way of hospitality", Guangdong Airport Group is looking for new opportunities in a new round of speed up and accelerating towards an international air cargo hub.
Text: Wu Yini, Correspondent: Yue Jixuan.