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Pudong free trade zone attracts DHL, said to offer cost saving potential
THE world's largest logistics company, Bonn-based DHL has become the first company to operate from Shanghai's free trade zone at Pudong International Airport by launching its first air route that offers transfers in Shanghai.
The new route could save eight hours out of the three-day journey from Leipzig, to Tokyo compared with the old route via Hong Kong, said DHL Pudong manager Qian Xiaorong.
International transshipments are unpacked, sorted and repacked at the DHL Pudong centre within four hours, without customs checks or duties. Most work occurs at night.
Pudong airport handles three million tonnes of cargo a year. In the first 10 months of this year, the volume of transshipment cargo at Pudong airport has surged by 125 per cent compared with the same period last year. The air cargo volume at Pudong airport will reach 5 to 7 million tonnes a year in 2015, reports China Daily.
"Shanghai has the potential to become an international hub for cargo transport because it is better positioned than Hong Kong and Singapore, in terms of being a shorter distance to Europe and the United States," said Mr Qian.
As a part of the 28.78 square kilometer free trade zone, the 1.81 square kilometer west freight terminal in Pudong airport has enough land reserves, so the airport can further expand air cargo services by utilising existing resources, said Pudong airport president Cai Hao.
In the meantime, a fourth runway at the airport will be put into operation in the first quarter next year. A new satellite terminal, which it is hoped will be complete in 2018, will provide an additional 120 aircraft stands to the existing 70.
The same optimism is also shared at Yangshan Port, the single largest component of the free trade zone in terms of area, which also benefits from simplified customs supervision.
The new route could save eight hours out of the three-day journey from Leipzig, to Tokyo compared with the old route via Hong Kong, said DHL Pudong manager Qian Xiaorong.
International transshipments are unpacked, sorted and repacked at the DHL Pudong centre within four hours, without customs checks or duties. Most work occurs at night.
Pudong airport handles three million tonnes of cargo a year. In the first 10 months of this year, the volume of transshipment cargo at Pudong airport has surged by 125 per cent compared with the same period last year. The air cargo volume at Pudong airport will reach 5 to 7 million tonnes a year in 2015, reports China Daily.
"Shanghai has the potential to become an international hub for cargo transport because it is better positioned than Hong Kong and Singapore, in terms of being a shorter distance to Europe and the United States," said Mr Qian.
As a part of the 28.78 square kilometer free trade zone, the 1.81 square kilometer west freight terminal in Pudong airport has enough land reserves, so the airport can further expand air cargo services by utilising existing resources, said Pudong airport president Cai Hao.
In the meantime, a fourth runway at the airport will be put into operation in the first quarter next year. A new satellite terminal, which it is hoped will be complete in 2018, will provide an additional 120 aircraft stands to the existing 70.
The same optimism is also shared at Yangshan Port, the single largest component of the free trade zone in terms of area, which also benefits from simplified customs supervision.
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