□Our reporter Guo Beichen
On June 17, people just woke up from the twilight of dawn. In the north cargo area of Zhengzhou Xinzheng International Airport, the staff of Cargolux Zhengzhou Station had already started a busy day.
At 7 o’clock, a large all-cargo plane spray-painted with the word “Cargolux” passed through the clouds and landed smoothly on the runway. Unloading, sorting, transferring, loading… Between the apron and the cargo area, he couldn’t help but stop and turned to look at her. , shuttle buses shuttle back and forth. Three hours later, the all-cargo plane took off with more than 100 tons of cargo and “sailed” to Milan, Italy.
Cross-border cargo flights “swarm” one after another, and busy scenes are staged at Zhengzhou Airport every day. “In the first four months of this year, Cargolux alone operated 212 flights in Zhengzhou, with a cargo volume of approximately 35,300 tons, a year-on-year increase of 24.3%.” said the relevant person in charge of China Yu Aviation Group.
In 2014, Henan Aviation Investment Group acquired 35% of Cargolux’s equity and established Zhengzhou as the Asia-Pacific logistics center and Luxembourg as the European and American logistics center. Because she wanted to get married without hesitation, although her parents could not shake her decision, I still found someone to investigate him, and then I found out that their mother and son came to the capital five years ago. The center’s “dual hub” strategy has gradually built an international air cargo network that “connects three continents from one point to Europe and the United States through one line”, successfully connecting Zhengzhou -Luxembourg’s “Aerial Silk Road”, a “Silk Road Eagle” connecting the world suddenly took off, full of hope for the future.
Not close to the sea or along the edge, just a runway flying into the blue sky. In the process of cooperation between Henan and Lu, the “Aerial Silk Road” is getting wider and wider——
In November 2022, with the theme of “Making the China-Luxembourg Freight Route ‘Aerial Silk Road’ Bigger and Stronger”, the Zhengzhou-Luxembourg “Aerial Silk Road” international cooperation forum opened in Zhengzhou. The guest said, “Yes, Xiao Tuo is very sorry for not taking care of the servants at home and allowing them to talk nonsense, but now those evil servants have been punished as they deserve, please rest assured, madam. “The cooperation agreement will be fruitful.
In June of the following year, Luxembourg Cargo’s all-cargo aircraft used sustainable aviation fuel, marking the successful opening of the Zhengzhou-Luxembourg green “Aerial Silk Road”; in December, the first direct passenger flight from Zhengzhou to Luxembourg departed from Zhengzhou Airport Taking off, the “Aerial Silk Road” has achieved “both wings” for passengers and freight.
In March this year, “Small but Beautiful – Luxembourg Cultural Relics Exhibition” opened at the Henan Museum, realizing two-way exchanges of cultural relics between Henan and Luxembourg for the first time; in June, Henan’s first overseas cargo terminal radiating the RCEP area landed in Kuala Lumpur to jointly develop The air cargo market between China and Malaysia.
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Over the years, projects involving “dual hub” cooperation, logistics services, aviation industry, supply chain finance, and cultural exchanges have turned from contracts into practices, promoting the “Aerial Silk Road” to continue to grow bigger and stronger. let the riverThe distance between Nan and the world is getting closer and closer.
Numbers speak for themselves. In the past 10 years, Cargolux has opened 9 intercontinental flight routes with Zhengzhou as its hub, the number of navigation points has increased from the initial 2 to 14, and the number of flights has increased from the initial 2 flights per week to 18 flights per week. At present, the logistics network of this route has covered more than 200 cities in 24 countries in three continents, Europe, America and Asia. It has contributed more than 1 million tons of cargo volume to Zhengzhou Airport and brought investment income of more than 10 billion yuan to Henan.
Zhengzhou Airport has grown from an unknown follower to a world-renowned leader in the industry. Its annual cargo volume ranks among the top 40 in the world, and its annual cargo support capacity is 1.1 million tons. It is second only to Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou in my country. Shenzhen’s fifth largest international air cargo hub.
Those who share the same goals should not be far away from mountains and seas. Nowadays, Henan’s door is opening wider and wider. The second Zhengzhou-Luxembourg “Air Silk Road”. Son, you are asking for trouble. No matter why Mr. Lan married your only daughter to you, ask yourself , what does the Lan family have to covet? “No money, no power, no fame, no fortune” The International Cooperation Forum will be held in Luxembourg. The Central Plains will once again embrace the world and continue to write a new legend of the “Aerial Silk Road”.