Will air freight prices come down? China's first professional cargo airport is put into use!

Recently, there was a big news in the logistics industry, which can greatly affect the air freight costs of our cross-border sellers. The Ezhou Huahu Airport, the world's fourth and Asia's first professional cargo airport, was officially put into use.

This name is actually quite confusing. Judging from the throughput alone, the cargo throughput of Ezhou Huahu Airport, which plans to reach a throughput of 2.45 million tons in 2025, does not exceed that of Pudong Airport and Hong Kong Airport. According to the official definition, a professional airport actually refers to an airport where cargo business accounts for the vast majority of its business, and it also serves as a base airport for air cargo giants and plays the role of a professional cargo hub airport.

Therefore, the first three professional airports mentioned by the official are Memphis Airport in the United States (FEDEX base), Louisville Airport in the United States (UPS base), and Leipzig Airport in Germany (DHL base). This time, Ezhou Huahu Airport is the base airport of domestic logistics giant SF Express.

There are many benefits to a base airport that is specially built for a logistics giant. It has a large number of supporting facilities tailored for freight companies, and establishes a highly efficient core logistics node. Such an airport can greatly improve the delivery timeliness and reduce costs in batches.

For example, UPS's Louisville Airport is known as the UPS World Port in the industry. It is the world's largest logistics transit center, with an operating area of ​​400,000 square meters and 44 terminal parking spaces. The unloading unit in the airport is just like the terminal building of a civil aviation airport. Aircraft can directly dock at the side to unload, while ordinary airports need to park at parking spaces and be transferred to the cargo terminal by ground handling trucks. The efficiency improvement is not a little bit.

Looking at the densely packed unloading locations, Louisville Airport's processing capacity has reached a terrifying 500,000 packages per hour.

The biggest impact of such a professional cargo airport being located in our country is that there will be more competitive options for air transport channels!

The basic price of air shipment to the United States is around 50-60/kg. After the Ezhou Huahu Airport is put into operation, freight forwarders will soon have cooperation channels, and prices will inevitably fall to a certain extent, competing with the 30-plus-priced Mason Clippers. It will no longer be painful to send air shipments for emergency replenishment. The current cross-border e-commerce situation is changing rapidly. In order to help sellers find ways to make money on Amazon in the post-epidemic era, we specially invited Ally, vice president of Tongtuo Technology, Mr. Sun, former CEO of Jiazhilian, and other top sellers to establish a private circle for big sellers. If you meet the following requirements, you can enter our circle and exchange experiences with top sellers!

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