CHINA's air cargo industry has been making constant progress and unleashing potential for industry players at home and abroad, reports Xinhua.
Airlines, airports, and other players in the industry are making intensive moves by expanding freighter fleets, launching new routes, adding infrastructure, enhancing operation efficiency, and more.
Shenzhen's SF Airlines, China's largest cargo airline in terms of fleet size, has taken a major step toward its target to become a world-class large-scale cargo carrier by expanding its fleet to 86 freighters.
The freighter fleet and air-route network will boost air-express delivery efficiency in the upcoming Double 11 shopping spree and other logistics peaks.
SF Airlines is the aviation branch of China's leading courier enterprise, SF Express. The fleet enables the company to expand its air-route network and speed up the delivery of goods with time-sensitive requirements.
The air cargo sector plays an important role in stabilizing the industrial and supply chains.
China's civil air transport industry maintained a good momentum of recovery. In August, its transport turnover was 11.61 billion tonne-kilometres, an 87.4 per cent year-on-year increase, marking the scale of China's air transport has exceeded the level of 2019 for two consecutive months, according to the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC).
The industry handled 636,000 tonnes of air cargo this August, up 1.1 pe rcent from August 2019, according to statistics from the CAAC.
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