Xinhua Silk Road - Belt and Road Portal, China's silk road economic belt and 21st Century Maritime Silk Road Website Xinhua Silk Road - Belt and Road Portal, China's silk road economic belt and 21st Century Maritime Silk Road Website
Subscribe CustomBlackClose

Belt & Road Weekly Subscription Form

download_pop

Research ReportCustomBlackClose

The full edition of the report is available at Xinhua Silk Road Database. You can click the “Table of Content” to have a general understanding of it.

Click on the button below to create your account and get immediate access to thousands of articles.

Start a Free Trial

Xinhua Silk Road Database
Company

Asia's first freight airport to be built in central China

December 15, 2017


Abstract : Chinese delivery giant SF Express has signed a deal with the Hubei provincial government to build the first freight airport in Asia, local authorities said Thursday.

4

WUHAN, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- Chinese delivery giant SF Express has signed a deal with the Hubei provincial government to build the first freight airport in Asia, local authorities said Thursday.

The airport, with an investment of 5 billion yuan (about 750 million U.S. dollars), will be built in the city of Ezhou.

Hubei Provincial Transport Investment Group, Shenzhen SF Taisen, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SF Express, and Shenzhen Nongyin Airport Investment will establish a joint venture to manage the project.

The project aims to meet the growing need of air express transit operations, while taking the traditional air cargo business into consideration.

The airport is expected to handle 2.45 million tonnes of cargo and about one million trips annually by 2025.

SF Express, founded in 1993 in Guangdong Province, is one of the largest private express logistics firms in China. It went public on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in February.

Scan the QR code and push it to your mobile phone

Keyword: SF-Express

Write to Us belt & road login close

Do you want to be a contributor to Xinhua Silk Road and tell us your Belt & Road story? Send your articles to [email protected] and share your stories with more people.

Click on the button below to create your account and get im http://img.silkroad.news.cn/templates/silkroad/en2017te access to thousands of articles.

Start a Free Trial

Ask Us A Question belt & road login close

If you have any questions, please enter them in the box below.

Identifying code Reload

Write to Us belt & road login close

Do you want to be a contributor to Xinhua Silk Road and tell us your Belt & Road story? Send your articles to silkroadweekly@xinhua.org and share your stories with more people.

Click on the button below to create your account and get im http://img.silkroad.news.cn/templates/silkroad/en2017te access to thousands of articles.

Start a Free Trial