A 'Sky Silk Road' connecting the world
2023-08-07
Late at night, people who have been working all day have fallen asleep. At the North Cargo Area of Zhengzhou Xinzheng International Airport, the staff of Luxembourg International Cargo Airlines Zhengzhou Station have just started their day's work. Starting to pick up and drop off flights at 2 am every day is their normal work routine. Assembling, unloading, loading, dismantling... Chen Pengchao, the operation supervisor of Luxembourg Cargo Airlines Zhengzhou Station, checked the cargo information with colleagues and told reporters, "This flight is a direct flight from Luxembourg to Zhengzhou. The plan is to unload 110 tons of cargo, load 130 tons of cargo in Zhengzhou in two and a half hours, and then take off to Chicago, United States." In 2014, Henan Civil Aviation Development Investment Co., Ltd. acquired 35% equity of Luxembourg Cargo Airlines, Successfully established the Zhengzhou Luxembourg "Air Silk Road", and a "Silk Road Eagle" connecting the world took off. From the initial two flights per week to a maximum of 14 flights per week, the route currently covers 15 cities around the world, including London, Chicago, and Milan. The opening of this route greatly assists the development of related logistics enterprises. Guangzhou Langtian Supply Chain Co., Ltd. is a deep partner of Luxembourg Cargo Airlines and an international logistics service provider for the Pinduoduo North American e-commerce platform Temu. Shang Liang, the Chairman of Guangzhou Langtian Supply Chain Co., Ltd., who is currently negotiating business in Zhengzhou, said that the company's business growth is due to the dense and guaranteed scheduled cargo flights of Luxembourg Cargo Airlines. At the same time, Zhengzhou Airport is located in a wide transportation network and convenient customs clearance. Goods are collected and distributed from China to Zhengzhou, and then transported to European countries through Luxembourg Cargo Airlines for customs clearance, which can be completed within three days, meeting the timeliness of cross-border e-commerce goods The demand for reliability. Zhengzhou has achieved full chain digitization of air port transportation vehicle declaration, manifest transmission, data change, and release instructions, and achieved 'second pass' through checkpoints through the application of QR codes and intelligent locks. "Yuan Kai, Deputy Chief of Logistics Monitoring Department of Zhengzhou Airport Customs, said that to improve collection and distribution efficiency, the airport customs has also established a" one-stop service window "to provide" 7 × 24-hour customs clearance service adopts a non-invasive inspection mode mainly based on machine inspection for high value-added vacuum packaging goods such as chips, integrated circuits, and precision instruments. At present, Zhengzhou has established a one hour intercity railway metropolitan area, a 300 kilometer expressway coverage area, an 800 kilometer high-speed railway area, and an aviation network covering major global economies. Relying on its aviation advantages, it has laid out aviation preference industry clusters such as intelligent terminals, precision machinery, and biomedicine. In 2022, the electronic information industry output value of Zhengzhou Airport Economic Comprehensive Experimental Zone exceeded 500 billion yuan. In this win-win linkage, the Chinese market has become the main force driving the operating performance and profit growth of Luxembourg Cargo Airlines. According to data from Luxembourg Cargo Airlines, the cargo volume on the Zhengzhou route of Luxembourg Cargo Airlines in 2017 was 10 times that of 2014. As a result, Luxembourg Cargo Airlines turned losses into profits, achieving a net profit of 122 million US dollars, and its ranking among global all cargo companies rose from 9th to 5th. In 2022, the company had a revenue of 5.1 billion US dollars and a net profit of 1.6 billion US dollars, making it the most profitable year in the company's history. In June of this year, Richard Ferguson and Lucen, President and CEO of Luxembourg Cargo Airlines
Edit:He Chuanning Responsible editor:Su Suiyue
Source:Xinhua
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