China News Service, Haikou, March 27 (Reporter Huang Yilin Shijie) At 1:30 am on the 27th, Hainan Airlines' Haikou=Paris flight HU787 took off from Haikou Meilan International Airport with a full load of 35 tons of cargo, marking the first Hainan Free Trade Port. A regular intercontinental freight route was officially opened.
This route is a perennial scheduled air cargo cooperation project jointly developed by Hainan Airlines and LENTON Group, a subsidiary of France Post.
According to Liu Taolin, general manager of the flight department of Hainan Airlines, the flight is operated by a Boeing 787-9. The one-way flight lasts 13 hours, and there are four round-trip flights every week.
The outbound goods transported on this flight are mainly express e-commerce goods and general goods. In the future, Hainan Airlines will continue to expand the import transportation channels of duty-free goods to provide fast cargo transportation guarantee for cross-border e-commerce and duty-free goods.
Liu Taolin said that after the opening of the Haikou=Paris regular intercontinental freight route, the Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Delta and other places will gather goods in Haikou to realize the transfer and distribution of domestic and international goods in the Hainan Free Trade Port, opening up a new path for the trade between China and Europe. , To further promote the innovative development of foreign trade.
At the inaugural ceremony held on the evening of March 26, Gu Gang, the leader of the joint working group of Hainan HNA Group and Party Secretary of HNA Group, said that HNA will continue to expand more high-quality international freight routes to further facilitate international economic and trade exchanges.
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