International express giants rush to Shenzhen market
The international express industry in Shenzhen, a city bordering on Hong Kong, has seen a booming prospect since some 30 home and international express companies including Fedex Express, DHL-Sinotrans, UPS, TNT, rushed to the local market.
The Shenzhen Airport has gradually become an international express logistics center in southern China, said Wang Huicheng, head of the Shenzhen Airport Customhouse.
The number of international expresses via the Shenzhen Airport Customs Monitoring Center totaled 18.899 million pieces last year, weighing 153,000 tons and valuing 10.65 billion yuan, ranking first in China for three consecutive years. UPS, one of the world’s four express giants, chartered airplanes in Shenzhen Airport for international express delivery for the first time starting from April 11, and it plans to have 24 flights a week. The takeoff of a chartered airplane means a keener competition among worlds express giants in Shenzhen.
The sharp growth of the international express industry in Shenzhen resulted from the gradual development of the high-tech industry and growing participations of enterprises in international competition. At present, Shenzhen’s industrial structure with the hi-tech industry, modern financial industry and logistics industry as the backbones has ensured sufficient supply of goods for express industry. Data shows that the delivery of display cards, diodes, integrate circuits, CPUs and financial bills, data and documents for commercial activities has made up most of Shenzhen’s express business.
Express mails and packages can complete all procedures within one hour on average at the airport customs.
Fedex Express has set up a specialized warehouse at the airports express center occupying an area of more than 2,000 square meters, and its special airplanes register 12 arrivals and departures in the airport every week on average. A thousand-square-meter specialized warehouse for DHL-Sinotrans is also under construction.
