The reporter learned from the Huangpu customs on April 18, “Dongguan-hong Kong International Airport Center” is the world’s first direct air side of the airport cross-border air and sea transport projects. Since the 2023 opened on April 18, the value of imports and exports has exceeded 23 billion yuan, effectively promoting complementary advantages and logistics connectivity in the Greater Bay area.
Recently, a batch of rail screw machines were shipped to Hong Kong International Airport after completing customs supervision, aviation security check and punching in the airport center, and then directly exported to Southeast Asia by plane.
Through the convergence of rules and mechanisms between Guangdong and Hong Kong, the airport center has extended a number of key logistics functions of export goods from the Hong Kong International Airport Cargo Terminal to Dongguan, realize export air cargo“Direct loading” and import air cargo“Direct lifting”, equivalent to, in Dongguan to create a bay area cargo“Cross-border city terminal.
At present, the airport center imports and exports more than 1,000 kinds of commodities, cargo volume of about 24,000 tons, for the Bay area manufacturing access to the world press the“Accelerator”.
Building a new global logistics channel for“Bay Area Manufacturing”
Hong Kong International Airport connects nearly 200 destinations around the world. According to the Hong Kong Airport Authority, about 75% of air cargo in the guangdong-hong Kong-macao Greater Bay area is transshipped overseas through Hong Kong International Airport. As a Guangdong-hong Kong cooperation to create innovative projects, “Dongguan-hong Kong International Airport Center” has what kind of advantage? And how to promote the deep integration of“Hong Kong Services + Bay Area Manufacturing”?
At the Airport Center, customs officers inspect a shipment of headphones from a Dongguan factory. Upon completion of the relevant procedures, the goods will be shipped from the port of Dongguan to Hong Kong International Airport by special ship, direct shipment. In the past, the cargo of the Greater Bay area was exported by air through Hong Kong, generally through land transport, customs clearance at the land port, and then shipped to the cargo terminal of the Hong Kong International Airport for export and other related formalities.
In the airport center, customs supervision has been embedded into the aviation logistics to realize the integration of supervision and aviation security.
The airport center has been in operation for two years, serving 948 enterprises in the Greater Grand-baie Bay Area, giving full play to the service advantages of the Hong Kong aviation industry and the manufacturing advantages of the mainland, and achieving efficient linkage of resources in the region.
Gather aviation logistics industry landing, efficient flow of goods
The Guangdong-hong Kong-macao Greater Bay area is rich in port resources, and it is the largest Bay area port group in the world in terms of cargo volume. Hong Kong International Airport is the busiest cargo airport in the world, with the largest cargo volume in the world for more than 10 years. The airport center combines the industrial advantages of the guangdong-hong Kong-macao Greater Bay area, the world-class Port Group and the airport group logistics advantages, and has shown strong development momentum in the past two years.
The reporter saw at the entrance of the airport center park that it only takes 3 seconds to complete license plate recognition at the bayonet. The truck will drive into the airport center under the supervision of the customs, and the cargo will complete related operations here.
The reporter learned that the airport center has been running for two years, gathered a group of freight forwarders, from the initial 25 to 125 now. At the same time of efficient cargo flow in airport center, how to ensure the safety of transportation?
Under the concentrated force of a number of facilitation measures, the development of the airport center has been accelerating, and more and more enterprises have“Global currency” through the airport center. In the first quarter of this year, the value and volume of imports and exports at the airport center increased by 121 percent and 214 percent, respectively, year on year.