The "Dongguan Hong Kong International Airport Center" has been operating for over half a year for convenient import and export of goods worth over 500 million yuan

On October 18th, the "Dongguan Hong Kong International Airport Center" was put into operation for half a year, with impressive results and a total of over 1100 import and export voyages, weighing approximately 1160 tons, and a cargo value of over 520 million yuan.Dongguan Hong Kong International Airport Center is the world's first cross-border sea air intermodal transportation project that directly connects to the airside of an airport

On October 18th, the "Dongguan Hong Kong International Airport Center" was put into operation for half a year, with impressive results and a total of over 1100 import and export voyages, weighing approximately 1160 tons, and a cargo value of over 520 million yuan.

Dongguan Hong Kong International Airport Center is the world's first cross-border sea air intermodal transportation project that directly connects to the airside of an airport. After half a year of operation, the airport center project has continuously improved its quality and expanded its volume. The number of ship voyages has increased from two per week to two per day, and charter services have increased from one to two per week. The Hong Kong Civil Aviation Department has recognized 84 freight forwarders operating in Dongguan, which has effectively promoted the continuous improvement of logistics integration in the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area and maintained a high level of operation in the opening up of the South Guangdong region to the outside world.

Open up a "two-way channel" for entry and exit to meet diverse needs. For enterprises, an airport center is equivalent to a "city terminal". Although it does not have a physical airport terminal, it follows the unified transportation standards of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and is assigned an independent aviation code "ZTI" (Dongguan) identification. It conducts aviation business as a "port of origin" and "port of destination" in the international air transport domain. At the same time, the center is an external location of Hong Kong International Airport that allows security checks and inspections not to be carried out within the airport area. It is equivalent to the relocation of the cargo terminal function of Hong Kong International Airport to Dongguan, and is known as the "super project" of deep cooperation between Dongguan and Hong Kong.

At present, the "two-way channels" for entry and exit of the airport center have been established, and the development of business formats is more balanced and diverse, with a broader development prospect.

In the traditional land transportation import mode, after the goods are picked up at Hong Kong airport, they need to be transported to a transit warehouse in Hong Kong for storage, and then transported into Hong Kong by China Hong Kong vehicles. Now, imported through the airport center, the goods go directly from Hong Kong airport to the airport center, which not only saves storage costs in the transit warehouse, but also saves about a day of time for handling cargo pick-up, temporary storage in the transit warehouse, and car hailing in Hong Kong He Yuhua, Deputy Chief of the Bonded Logistics Supervision Department of Sha Tin Customs under Huangpu Customs, said.

The number of import and export enterprises has increased nearly four times, and the comprehensive cost has decreased by over 30%. The airport center has been operating for half a year, and a total of 253 enterprises have import and export records in the airport center, an increase of 3.9 times compared to 52 in the first month of operation. Enterprises have enjoyed tangible convenience in the airport center mode.

Zhou Jiale is the Hong Kong representative of Dongguan Jinming International Freight Forwarding Co., Ltd, When it comes to the airport center, he has a deep feeling: "Under the traditional land transportation model, booking, transportation, customs clearance, and palletizing require different companies to be responsible for each link, which is very fragmented and decentralized. In the airport center, all of the above links have achieved intensive operation, and in terms of operation, security, and other expenses, the airport center is also about 50% cheaper than Hong Kong, and our overall operating costs have decreased by at least 30%

Starting from August this year, the Airport Center has developed a charter flight model, providing enterprises with more independent shipping times and more convenient and efficient export routes. Zhao Dongxu, General Manager of Dongguan Port Air Transport Supply Chain Co., Ltd., said, "Taking a chartered flight to a certain country in South Asia as an example, the goods are received and stored at 16:00 on the same day. Under efficient supervision from Huangpu Customs, the goods can be loaded at 20:30. The next day at 9:00 am, we can take a plane and arrive at the destination at 12:40 am. Within 17 hours, we can complete the process of palletizing, customs clearance, security inspection, loading, and shipping. The customer's recognition of us is very high

(Reporter Zheng Shu and Zhao Jing from the headquarters)

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