China News Service, Nanchang, March 12 (Wu Pengquan and Yi Jing Huangchuan) On the evening of the 11th, on the apron of Nanchang Changbei International Airport, the customs officers of Nanchang Changbei Airport, which is affiliated to Nanchang Customs, were checking a "passenger-to-cargo" aircraft. The all-cargo plane is under supervision. The passenger plane has no passengers. On the conveyor belt, boxes of goods are being loaded onto the plane and will be transported to Brussels in the early morning of the 12th.
This is the first "passenger-to-cargo" international flight that Nanchang Air Port has ushered in this year. This batch of exported goods mainly includes auto parts, mobile phone accessories and clothing and daily necessities, weighing 28 tons.
Gong Fulan, chief of the customs logistics monitoring section at Nanchang Changbei Airport, introduced that at present, the number of all-cargo transport aircraft is limited, and the gap between supply and demand in international air transport is significant.
It is understood that this passenger-to-cargo flight is an Airbus A330 wide-body passenger aircraft. By removing the cabin seats, the transport capacity can be increased to 200 cubic meters on the basis of the 90 cubic meters of belly cabins, and the capacity has doubled after the modification. , each sortie can transport about 45 tons of cargo.
In order to unblock the air logistics channel, Nanchang Changbei Airport Customs investigates the demand for "passenger-to-freight" flights in advance, guides freight forwarding and freight source companies to deeply connect with airlines, and unblocks the entire logistics chain information; opens up a green channel for flight filing, and actively connects with airlines to understand and guarantee To ensure that the airline can start the business as quickly as possible; carry out risk pre-assessment according to flight dynamics and crew conditions, and formulate a thorough guarantee plan.
In addition, Nanchang Changbei Airport Customs has also implemented convenient measures such as "7×24" hourly appointment clearance, special window declaration, and absence of consignee and consignor for inspection to ensure "zero delay" in customs clearance of goods.
At present, Nanchang Changbei International Airport has regular "passenger-to-cargo" flights to Brussels every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, and plans to implement more international "passenger-to-cargo" flights such as Nanchang-Tokyo in the future.
Jiang Wei, Marketing Manager of China Eastern Airlines Jiangxi Branch, said that many international passenger flights were canceled due to the epidemic. With the assistance of the customs, the company opened the first "passenger-to-cargo" flight of China Eastern Airlines in Jiangxi, serving the local import and export enterprises in Jiangxi. While solving the actual logistics difficulties, it also helped the airline to achieve business growth by "replenishing passengers with goods".
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