China’s First Air Freight Route for Fresh Products Links Central China and America

China’s First Air Freight Route for Fresh Products Links Central China and America

直达生鲜产地！河南开通首条直通美洲定期生鲜航线

Around 8 o’clock pm of May 28, fully loaded with California cherries, an all-cargo flight (Boeing 747) taking off from Los Angeles arrived at Zhengzhou Airport. Undertaken by EAEMALL (a logistics platform of Eastern Airlines), China’s first air freight route for fresh products was launched linking Zhengzhou and South/North America. From now on, it will be convenient for local people in Henan and even the whole North China to buy foreign fresh products at home instead of overseas.

5月28日20时许，一架从美国洛杉矶出发的波音747全货机，满载产自加利福尼亚州的车厘子，降落在郑州机场。至此，“东航产地直达”（东航旗下物流平台）郑州—南/北美定期生鲜航班正式开通，意味着郑州机场有了全国首条直通美洲地区的定期全货机生鲜航线，为河南乃至华北地区的老百姓“不出国门，享用国外原产地品质的生鲜产品”提供了便利条件。

China’s first air freight route for fresh products links Central China and America. [Photo provided to dahe.cn]

Taking Zhengzhou Airport as its main operation base, the all-cargo air route is operated by Boeing 747 aircraft scheduled to fly 3 times a week (about 135 times a year) since June, with a yearly load of at least 27 thousand tonnes. In China, flights will depart and arrive at Zhengzhou Airport, while in America, the departing airport is not fixed but depends on the harvest period of fruit and seafood, including Miami, San Diego, Mexico City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Moncton, Seattle, etc.

据悉，该航线将以郑州机场为主运营基地，从今年6月份起，每周执行3班，全年共执行135班左右；执飞机型为波音747全货机，全年可提供至少2.7万吨进出口舱位运力。该航线航班在中国国内的进出港均为郑州机场，在国外的进出港将根据水果、海鲜的收获季节，分别从迈阿密、圣地亚哥、墨西哥城、芝加哥、洛杉矶、蒙克顿、西雅图等地始发飞往中国。

On the strength of its advantages in location and transport, swift cargo distribution with lower cost, and complete supporting industries for refrigeration equipment production, Zhengzhou was selected as the base of the route for expanding deep processing business of imported fresh products to boost the development of new retail and new format, according to EAEMALL.

东航物流相关负责人介绍，此次之所以将航线落地郑州，是看中郑州的交通区位优势，货物分拨迅速且成本相对较低，制冷设备制造等配套产业齐全，有利于后续拓展进口生鲜产品的深加工业务，带动生鲜新零售、新业态发展。

It is learned that with regular all-cargo flights for fresh products commenced by Henan Airport Group and EAEMALL, Zhengzhou Airport will be used as the domestic distribution center in the future. Via the city's“Aerial Silk Road”, the world’s aquatic products, fruits and beef will be shipped to Zhengzhou and after sorting and processing transported by air or land to other parts of China including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, as well as its surrounding countries and regions like Japan, South Korea and Singapore. It can be predicted that Zhengzhou would become an international center for global fresh products, effective shipping and distribution and deep processing industry, with Zhengzhou Airport’s leading role of imported fresh products in Northeast Asia.

据悉，河南机场集团和东航物流联合开通定期全货机生鲜航线后，未来将以郑州机场为国内集散中心，依托郑州“空中丝绸之路”航线网络通道优势，将全球的水产、水果、牛肉等集中运输到郑州，经过分拣加工后，再从郑州通过空运或陆运方式，转运至包括港澳台在内的全国各地，以及日本、韩国、新加坡等周边国家和地区，助力郑州全球生鲜产品国际贸易中心、快速航运集散中心、精深加工中心建设，确立郑州机场在东北亚地区进口生鲜领域的领先地位。（记者/祝传鹏 翻译/赵汉青 实习生/朱清远 审校/丁岚）