China News Service, Shanghai, January 7th (Li Jiajia) In the past 2021, the annual cargo and mail throughput of Shanghai Hongqiao Airport and Pudong Airport reached 4.366 million tons, an increase of 8.47% year-on-year, surpassing the historical high of 4.23 million tons in 2017. , set a new record for the guarantee level of Shanghai's air cargo hub against the trend.

　　As the world's top three and domestic first international air cargo hub, Pudong Airport's cargo route network covers 251 destinations in 48 countries/regions around the world. Currently, there are 59 overseas airlines and 10 domestic airlines operating international cargo at Pudong Airport. business.

The inbound and outbound cargo volume of Pudong Airport accounts for 93.7% of the total, ensuring over 40% of the inbound and outbound cargo volume of domestic airports.

Photo courtesy of Shanghai Airport Group for the air export transportation of the new crown vaccine

　　Under the background of the shortage of shipping resources and the poor flow of shipping resources under the impact of the global epidemic, Pudong Airport Cargo Station and China Eastern Airlines Logistics Cargo Station actively provide aviation logistics solutions with airlines, multinational enterprises in the industrial chain, well-known large domestic enterprises and many small and medium-sized enterprises to ensure electronic The transportation of high-grade and high-value-added materials such as products, parts, medicines, etc., maintains the stability of core key industries and foreign trade supply chains.

Among them, the focus is to ensure the air export transportation of the new crown vaccine, and the destinations cover Europe, North America, Africa, Southeast Asia and other regions, which have played an important role in the global fight against the new crown epidemic.

　　Since the Civil Aviation Administration of China implemented the "Five Ones" policy for international passenger flights in March 2020, the belly capacity of passenger flights, which account for 1/3 of the total cargo volume at Pudong Airport, has almost "returned to zero". Suddenly nervous.

With the support of civil aviation policies, Shanghai Airport Group took the initiative to "turn crises into opportunities", actively serving and guaranteeing domestic and foreign airlines to test the waters and continue to expand the "customer-to-cargo" business.

　　In order to facilitate the efficient and smooth operation of cargo on "passenger-to-cargo" flights, the airport operation department, based on the airline to which the "passenger-to-cargo" flight belongs, prioritizes the flight to the far seat of the corresponding terminal, which is convenient for ground handling.

The airport ground handling department ingeniously developed innovative cargo and mail loading modes such as the cabin loading slippery blanket, the combined operation of transfer vehicles and passenger elevators, etc., which greatly improved the guarantee efficiency.

　　With the popularization and application of the "passenger-to-cargo" flight operation and support model, the number of Chinese and foreign airlines that will carry out this business at Pudong Airport in 2021 has increased to 42, with an average of more than 100 "passenger-to-cargo" flights taking off and landing every day. The airline company China Eastern Airlines has put more than 10,000 flights in Pudong Airport, effectively supplementing the air capacity supply of Pudong Airport.

　　At the same time, Shanghai Airport Group relies on the global route network to further revitalize the cargo schedule resources, improve the waypoint distribution, and ensure the continuous line and continuous point of the cargo routes.

With the strong support of the Civil Aviation Administration of East China, it meets the needs of airlines and actively promotes the use of idle passenger time at Pudong Airport for the cargo market.

In order to relieve the pressure of cargo security at the airport from 0 to 6 o'clock, we actively arrange the take-off and landing of cargo shifts during the day time from 6 to 23 o'clock. The peaks of cargo entering and leaving the port at 14:00, 16:00 and 21:00 are conducive to the balanced distribution of ground support resources.

　　Thanks to favorable policies, over the past year, more than 10 foreign airlines have added or expanded cargo destinations at Pudong Airport. China Eastern, the base airline, has added 6 destinations such as Budapest and Luxembourg, and expanded 8 cargo destinations such as Paris and Milan.

　　Shanghai Airport has also continued to optimize and upgrade the normal and long-term mechanism for epidemic prevention and control. In just one month, it has completed the construction of nearly 10,000 square meters of inbound cold chain and general cargo disinfection sites, built temporary centralized residences, and quickly implemented zoning and grading prevention and control of goods. and high-risk personnel concentrated residence requirements.

Photo courtesy of Shanghai Airport Group for "passenger-to-cargo" flight guarantee

　　At the same time, Shanghai Airport has also developed a "healthy airport" information management system for the cargo area, incorporating more than 200 cargo companies and more than 20,000 employees into unified information management, which can be updated dynamically at any time.

Through the real-time integration of new technologies such as face recognition and personal health information such as nucleic acid detection and vaccination, the closed management and precise prevention and control of freight areas will be comprehensively strengthened.

Develop and use automatic equipment such as bottom spray, gantry spray, assembly line disinfection, and large-scale disinfection machines to achieve comprehensive disinfection of imported goods.

　　Revise the plan for rapid recovery of support capability in the event of a sudden epidemic situation, and organize backup forces by means of "Hongqiao supports Pudong, domestic support international, and management support the front line"; In emergencies, the security forces will be mutually backed up, and a "firewall" for sudden epidemics will be built to ensure that the freight production capacity is not chaotic.

　　Shanghai Airport Group has also cooperated with all parties at the port to optimize the "soft environment" of air cargo operators, promote the electronic and paperless documents of customs clearance and logistics documents in the import and export links, further improve the utilization rate of electronic waybills, and further speed up the customs clearance time of cargo and mail entry and exit.

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