Tag: Air Transport

Boeing remains optimistic about China air cargo freights

Posted by | Sep 5, 2007 | |

Boeing expressed a positive outlook with regards to China’s air-cargo traffic, with an expected rise of 6.1% a year for the next two decades.

The rationale for this growth is backed by the increasing number of airlines that will be involved in transporting manufactured products from China. With global trade forecast to rise by 7.6% by the end of the year, more products will be shipped, thereby increasing demand for cargo planes.

According to the International Air Transport Association, an international industry trade group of airlines, China’s overseas air-cargo transportations are expected to increase at a rate of 14% per year for the next couple of years.

Statistics have shown that in the first half of the year, cargo volume rose by 15% to a total of 1.83 million tons.

With China enjoying the most rapid growth in the world, many airlines including Lufthansa, Korean Air Lines and Singapore Airlines have forged cargo airline ventures.

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European air cargo up 4 pct in July 2007

Posted by | Aug 30, 2007 | |

Association of European Airlines European airlines carried 4 pct more cargo last month thanks to good growth on intercontinental routes, the latest monthly figures from the Association of European Airlines (AEA) showed. The figures include parcel shipments carried as belly hold freight but exclude mail.

The 4 pct rise in freight traffic on the 31 AEA member airlines included a 4.4% increase on routes outside Europe, which make up the bulk of air freight traffic.

The major market, Asia Pacific, showed a 1.6 pct rise in traffic, while the North Atlantic, the second-largest trade lane, generated growth of 4.5. pct South America showed a 14.6 pct rise while sub-Saharan Africa traffic grew by 15.2 pct Traffic within Europe was down by 1.8 pct.

Over the first seven months of 2007, total freight traffic for AEA airlines is up by 2.2 pct, with Asia showing a 0.7 pct drop and North America up by 3.2 pct.

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Interview – Cologne seeks to defend status as Europe's top express airport

Posted by | Aug 8, 2007 | |

Cologne/Bonn Airport is determined to defend its position as Europe’s leading airport for express cargo despite the move of DHL to Leipzig, managing director Michael Garvens told CEP-Research in an interview. Integrators and low-cost passenger airlines will remain the two core businesses in the future, he said.

Cologne/Bonn, with some 700,000 tones of air freight in 2006, is Germany’s second-largest cargo airport behind Frankfurt but the largest for express traffic due to the UPS European air hub and DHL’s night flight hub. This year it is expecting to grow to about 740,000 tones.

Cologne, with rapid access to Germany’s main export region of North Rhine-Westphalia, had a much better location than Leipzig, he noted. “Integrators are close to their customers in Cologne,” he declared.

The relocation of DHL and Lufthansa Cargo flights to Leipzig later this year and during early 2008 will mean the loss of some 215,000 tones of freight and some EUR 20 million in revenues. DHL, which will close down its larger European hub at Brussels next year, expects to handle some 700,000 tones a year at its new European express hub at Leipzig, which is due to go into service in August 2008.

The relocation of FedEx’s Central and Eastern European hub from Frankfurt to Cologne in 2010 will compensate for about one-third of the lost DHL tonnage. This will enable the airport to grow from about 550,000 tones to well over 600,000 tones in annual volumes that year.

Cologne/Bonn generates about 40 pct of its revenues, which grew to EUR 256 million last year, from freight, and expects to maintain this share in the future.

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China Post opens new domestic air express hub at Nanjing

Posted by | Aug 2, 2007 | |

China Post has started operations at its new air express hub at Nanjing in eastern China ahead of schedule in its latest move to defend its leadership of the domestic express market and expand its international activities.

Its airline subsidiary China Postal Airlines launched flights to and from Nanjing Lukou airport in mid-July even though construction of new taxiways and parking aprons as well as the main express handling building is not expected to be completed until end-August, the Xinhua news agency reported.

China Post announced on August 1 that its 12 cargo planes are operating to and from Nanjing. Once the hub is fully completed, China Post plans to operate 20 cargo planes at the airport and handle about 40,000 tonnes of express shipments a year there.

China Post officials claimed that the express hub will be the largest and most modern in Asia, and will enable it to speed up express services within the country. It will be composed of a freight terminal for postal night planes, modern sorting and distribution equipment, and customs and security facilities. The hub will handle and distribute domestic and international EMS items arriving at night, and complete within four hours all the processes of loading, sorting, security checking and customs clearance.

As well as upgrading domestic air express services, China Post has been gradually expanding international operations. China Postal Airlines launched flights to South Korea (Seoul) and Japan (Osaka) last year.

In July, China Post and Japan Post sealed a bilateral agreement on express services, including wider international express services between the two countries, and opening the way for Japan Post to buy into a China Post subsidiary.

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