"A going-out channel in the sky" in central China: Asia's largest professional cargo airport starts operation

EZHOU,China,July 15,2022 -- Huahu Airport in central Chinese province Hubei's Ezhou City,the firstprofessional freight hub airport in Asia and the fourth in the world,isscheduled to be put into operation on July 17. By then,departing from Ezhou,passengers and goods can reach the whole country overnight and reach overseasdestinations in two days.

Ezhou Huahu Airport

Ezhou Huahu Airport is positioned as a freight hub,passenger transport branchline,public platform and cargo navigation base. It took eight years for theairport to develop from preliminary planning in 2014 to completion andoperation in 2022. The investment of the airport project totaled 30.842 billionyuan,and the project package consists of three parts: the airport project,thetransshipment center and the SF airlines base project,and the oil supplyproject,according to Ezhou Converged Media Center.

In August 2015,Hubei international logistics central hub project was listed asthe top project in the province. On September 17,2020,Hubei and the CivilAviation Administration of China held a working meeting in Wuhan. The two sidesdecided to jointly promote Wuhan Tianhe Airport to become an internationalgateway hub in the central region and Ezhou Huahu Airport to become afirst-class aviation freight transport hub,forming a dual-hub for passengerand cargo aviation with the two airports in a bid to create "a going-outchannel in the sky" in Hubei.

Ezhou Huahu Airport is designed to serve a passenger throughput of 1 millionvisits and a cargo and mail throughput of 2.45 million tons in 2025. Theairport operation support level is 4E. In this phase,two long-distanceparallel runways and taxiway systems will be built in the east and west. Therunways are 3,600 meters long and 45 meters wide,with a runway spacing of1,900 meters.

A freight transport transit center with an area of nearly 700,000 squaremeters,a terminal building with an area of 15,000 square meters and 124stations will also be built,which can match the Memphis International Airportin the United States.

The test flight was carried out at the end of March,the airport was put intooperation in the middle of July,and the cargo function will be fully opened atthe end of November.

According to the Hubei International Logistics Airport Co.,Ltd.,after theairport was put into operation,the 1.5-hour flight circle can cover 90 percentof China's economic aggregate and 80 percent of the population. Huahu Airportwill open 7 routes and 9 destinations from Ezhou to Beijing,Shanghai,Shenzhen,Xiamen and Kunming in the initial stage of passenger transport.

For cargo transport,the airport will open domestic services first and theninternational services. Two routes from Ezhou to Shenzhen and Shanghai will beopened in the first phase. After the international cargo transport function isfully in operation,international cargo routes to destinations such as Osakaand Frankfurt will be opened. The airport will gradually grow into aworld-class aviation freight transport hub,and strive to build a new logisticshighland in China and even the Asia-Pacific region.

As a major national productivity project,Huahu Airport shoulders theresponsibility of participating in the global aviation logistics competition onbehalf of China,and is the most important project of Hubei Province,accordingto a senior official in Ezhou. After being put into operation,the airport willsurely become the key support for Hubei to build a pioneering area for buildinga new development pattern in China.

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