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Jun 14, 2016 (newstodate): China's fast-growing postal company SF Express Co. has picked Wuhan as the location for its coming new cargo hub that will become the country's first non-state owned airport.
After the approval by China's aviation authority CAAC and following on the government's approval of plans the presented, construction of the new cargo airport at Yanji, 70 km from Wuhan, will start already before the end of this year.
Once fully developed, the airport will be capable of handling up to five mio tonnes of cargo annually, securing it a position as the world's 4th largest cargo airport, after Hong Kong, Memphis, and Shanghai.
Estimates are that the SF Express Co's airline, SF Airlines today carries some 20 percent of the country's total express and domestic air cargo, with huge potentials for growth.
With the first flight in 2009, SF Airlines is China's largest cargo carrier, operating a fleet of 12 Boeing 737, 15 Boeing 757 and one Boeing 767 cargo aircraft, with orders placed for a further 29 Boeing 767 freighters.
The airline plans to grow its fleet to over 100 aircraft by 2020.
In 2015, Estonian postal company Omniva set up a JV - Post11 - with SF Express aiming at turning Tallinn Airport into a European logistics hub for Chinese e-trade shipments into Europe, carried by SF Airlines and other subcontracted carriers.
After the approval by China's aviation authority CAAC and following on the government's approval of plans the presented, construction of the new cargo airport at Yanji, 70 km from Wuhan, will start already before the end of this year.
Once fully developed, the airport will be capable of handling up to five mio tonnes of cargo annually, securing it a position as the world's 4th largest cargo airport, after Hong Kong, Memphis, and Shanghai.
Estimates are that the SF Express Co's airline, SF Airlines today carries some 20 percent of the country's total express and domestic air cargo, with huge potentials for growth.
With the first flight in 2009, SF Airlines is China's largest cargo carrier, operating a fleet of 12 Boeing 737, 15 Boeing 757 and one Boeing 767 cargo aircraft, with orders placed for a further 29 Boeing 767 freighters.
The airline plans to grow its fleet to over 100 aircraft by 2020.
In 2015, Estonian postal company Omniva set up a JV - Post11 - with SF Express aiming at turning Tallinn Airport into a European logistics hub for Chinese e-trade shipments into Europe, carried by SF Airlines and other subcontracted carriers.