"Air Silk Road" Drives Inland Henan To Open Up To The Outside World

At 5 a.m., international cargo flights arrived one after another. Facing the dawn, a row of goods in accordance with different standards "board" goods from the cabin to the goods station. The forklift truck was fast shuttling, and the freight protection personnel dressed in safety vest ran all the way. The airport ground support personnel nervously counted the goods. Outside the cargo station, the trucks are open, waiting for the dresses to start at any time.

This is a busy scene at Zhengzhou international freight station. In 2018, Zhengzhou airport completed 515 thousand tons of cargo throughput, ranking first in the central region.

No way to the sea, a runway rushing to the blue sky. Since June 2014, Luxemburg International Cargo Airlines has opened the first Zhengzhou to Luxemburg cargo ship route, and Zhengzhou has gradually become an important international air cargo hub on the "air Silk Road". The busy "air Silk Road" has become a strategic breakthrough for inland Henan to expand its opening to the outside world.

"Unloading goods from Europe, loading new goods to Japan, flying from Japan to Chicago, and then returning to Europe." Wang Yong, international freight manager of Henan airport group, said, "the cargo is fully loaded and has been optimized to two hours."

Fast is the intuitive impression of Zhengzhou as an important node of the "air Silk Road". At present, Zhengzhou airport has 6 designated ports and cross-border electricity supplier business, including imported fruit, chilled aquatic products, edible aquatic animals, chilled meat, Australian live cattle, international mail spanfer, etc. In April this year, the Zhengzhou airport fully implemented 7 * 24 hours customs clearance. At 6 o'clock in the morning, the Australian tuna arrived at Zhengzhou airport. After customs clearance, tally, quarantine and distribution, it was expected that the table of customers in Beijing and other places could be served at 18 o'clock that day.

"At present, many of our fresh choices come from Zhengzhou." Guo Limin, head of Shanghai BondA Tianyuan International Freight Co., Ltd., said, "Zhengzhou can achieve rapid spanshipment and link to the whole country. Moreover, there are many flights, rich routes and high customs clearance efficiency.

Mi is the visual embodiment of Zhengzhou's pivotal position on the "air Silk Road" route. At the airport freight route map of Zhengzhou airport, 34 cargo cargo routes reached 28 international cities. By the end of 2018, 21 of Zheng Yunying's Cargo Airlines (15 foreign airlines) had opened 34 of all cargo routes (29 in the international area), 40 in the navigable city (28 in the international area), and basically formed a hub and spoke network covering the world's major economies.

Taking the cold chain, express delivery and e-commerce logistics as the breakthrough point, the Zhengzhou airport comprehensive economic experimentation area has actively introduced and trained large cargo carriers and logistics integrators based on Zhengzhou airport, and has landed at Ambo airport storage service center and Greenland global import commodity central operation center. At present, clothing from the ZARA fashion distribution center of Zhengzhou port to the whole country has covered more than 500 stores in more than 60 cities.

"We have special sorting equipment at Zhengzhou airport, and we can send an entire charter in 12 hours." Mou Yimin, head of ZARA freight forwarding, said, "our annual volume is nearly 20 thousand tons, and the import and export volume is about 2 billion yuan."

Foot is the vivid embodiment of carrying capacity of Zhengzhou for the "air Silk Road". At present, the Zhengzhou airport has 7 cargo terminals, and the international freight capacity, the number of all cargo planes, the volume of flights and the number of navigation cities all rank in the first phalanx of the country. Henan Airport Group official said that on the basis of stabilizing the capacity of existing routes, Zhengzhou will also open all cargo aircraft routes from Zhengzhou to Losangeles, Ethiopia Addisababa, Tel Aviv, Canada and Halifax.

Henan provincial development and Reform Commission responsible person said that relying on the "air Silk Road", Henan accelerated the pace of opening to the outside world, out of a new way of open economic development in the inland areas.