Central Airport Racing ｜ Extremely engraved

Dahecai Cube "Extreme Carrier" No. 773

Dahecai Cube "Extreme Carrier" team reporter Chen Shiangwen Ma Tengfei Photography

Ezhou's strong intervention in the central airport competition.

Asia's first and the fourth professional freight hub airport in the world, Ezhou Huahu Airport (hereinafter referred to as "Ezhou Airport"), fell in this seven -Pu Changzhi population of only 1.079 million, and the smallest prefecture -level city in Hubei Province. After sailing on July 17, it forms a horn with the western Wuhan Tianhe Airport (hereinafter referred to as "Wuhan Airport").

Thirty days later, on August 16th, Zhengzhou Xinzheng Airport (hereinafter referred to as "Zhengzhou Airport") had an annual guarantee capacity of 600,000 tons of new cargo stations into trial operation, which seemed to be some kind of "response".

In the past ten years, Zhengzhou Airport Freight has dominated the list for ten years.

But in the future, the hardware of Ezhou Airport can meet the goal of 2.45 million tons of cargo and postal throughput in 2025, while Zhengzhou Airport is only 1.1 million tons. Seems to be judged.

Is this the end of the Central Airport Race for many years, or the beginning of a new round of hot competition?

"Response" after 30 days

Zhengzhou Airport's hardware of the small target of 2025 is finally in place.

On August 9, Henan Airport Group held a promotion conference on the Zhengzhou Airport North Cargo Shipping Area, announcing that the new goods station will be put into trial operation on August 16, and the transfer will be completed on September 7.

At that time, Zhengzhou Airport's annual shipping guarantee capabilities will increase by 600,000 tons to 1.1 million tons.

This is the "timely rain" of the 1 million -ton cargo and postal throughput of 2025, and it also lays the foundation for the creation of Zhengzhou International Air Cargo Hub.

Originally, Zhengzhou Airport's annual shipping capacity was 500,000 tons. After the first breakthrough in design guarantee in 2017, in 2020 and 2021, another 600,000 tons and 700,000 tons of integer marks successively.

From August 16th, the problem of overloading for many years and the increasingly available shortcomings will be solved.

It is worth noting that the promotion meeting was widely -profile.

However, no matter how the Zhengzhou Airport has been in the past, in the context of the opening of Ezhou Airport, it will still be scattered to the outside world's attention to the new goods station and even make people worry.

According to the data, Ezhou Airport is the first and the fourth professional freight hub airport in Asia in Asia. Its airport terminals, transfer centers and other facilities are based on the goal of satisfying the passenger throughput of 1 million passengers and 2.45 million tons of cargo and postal throughput in 2025 design. After the Hubei Airport is put into operation, Hubei will form a dual -hub system of aviation passenger and cargo in Wuhan Airport, mainly passenger and Ezhou Airport.

And Zhengzhou Airport, after the new goods station is put into use, the guarantee capacity is only 1.1 million tons.

Throughout the central region, Zhengzhou Airport, Wuhan Airport, and Changsha Huanghua Airport (hereinafter referred to as "Changsha Airport"), for many years.

After Zhengzhou Airport has occupied the first freight in the central airport for ten consecutive years, and becoming the "double first" of passenger freight in the central airport for four consecutive years, the competitive pattern seems to be clear, stable, and solidified. The central part seems to return to the situation of the hegemony.

Central Airport Racing

Originally, Zhengzhou Airport could only respect the last seat in the competition with Changsha and Wuhan.

According to data, the China Civil Aviation Administration data shows that in 2005, the passenger throughput of Changsha Airport, Wuhan Airport, and Zhengzhou Airport was 5.3 million, 4.74 million, and 2.97 million, respectively. 64,000 tons and 44,700 tons.

Beginning in 2010, the increase in passenger and freight volume of Zhengzhou Airport has gradually accelerated. In 2011 and 2011, only Zhengzhou Airport passenger transport continued the rapid growth of passenger freight.

Data show that Changsha Airport's passenger transportation has increased from 33.5%in 2009 to 11.8%in 2010 and 8.4%in 2011. Wuhan Airport has decreased from 22.8%in 2009 to 3%in 2010, and 7 in 2011. %, And Zhengzhou Airport was 24.7%, 18.6%, and 16.6%from 2009 to 2011; in terms of freight, from 2010 to 2011, Changsha Airport increased year -on -year to 24.9%and 5.7%, and Wuhan Airport was 8.2%and 11.4%. Zhengzhou was Zhengzhou. The airport was 21.6%and 19.8%.

The amount of quantity continues to accumulate, and qualitative changes occur in 2012. At that time, the volume of freight in Zhengzhou Airport reached 47.1%year -on -year, with 151,200 tons leading Changsha (110,600 tons) and Wuhan (128,200 tons) for the first time. In terms of passenger transportation, Zhengzhou fell behind 14.75 million and 13.98 million in Changsha and Wuhan with 11.67 million people, but the gap continued to narrow.

It is from this year that Zhengzhou Airport Freight has opened for 10 years.

Among them, the most high time is undoubtedly under the epidemic in 2020, becoming the international entrance of Hong Kong out -of -Hong Kong outlets for air -to -prevent epidemic prevention materials in the central region, which is first tied with Beishang, Guangzhou and Shenzhen Airport. In the past two years, Zhengzhou Airport has entered 40 in front of the global airport freight.

Passenger transport catching up is just a matter of time.

With the investment in the second phase of 2016 (the second runway and T2 terminal), Zhengzhou Airport took the lead in entering the era of the "double runway", and passengers' throughput continued to volume.

Since 2017, Zhengzhou Airport has become the first in the central region for four consecutive years.

In June 2015, the "Civil Aviation Management" published an article by two employees of Hubei Airport Group, the "leader" of the central part of the central part. It is mentioned that the airports in the central region show a "disorderly" trend in the "fierce" competition. The previous "white thermalization" was represented by Wuhan Airport in 2016 with 207,63217 people at 207,1564 people, and the gap between the two was only 14,000.

Looking back at the past ten years, in the passenger throughput, Changsha Airport has become the number one passenger volume five times, and Wuhan Airport has only once. Zhengzhou has become the first passenger volume in the past five years. The competition situation in the central airport is already very clear.

Regarding the counterattack of Zhengzhou Airport, at the 2020 Civil Aviation Trend Forum held in Zhengzhou, the relevant person in charge of Henan Airport Group responded:

One is the strategic leadership -in 2007, Henan Province proposed a civil aviation priority development strategy. In 2012, it proposed the "three" development strategies of freight, first, and cadre first. The other five major reasons are: hardware first, "dual hub" strategic decision -making, innovation -driven, policy stability and sustainability, and endogenous driving force.

However, it should not be ignored that the area where Zhengzhou Airport is located is the Zhengzhou Airport Experimental Zone. It is the first and currently only national airport economic development zone approved by the State Council. This is undoubtedly the fundamental reason for Zhengzhou Airport to take off.

For the counterattack of Zhengzhou Airport, other airports are not indifferent.

In 2021, the competition pattern has slightly changed -for many years, Changsha Airport regains the throne of the number of passengers in the central region. For 10 years in Wuhan Airport, in 2018, the annual shipping throughput was 200,000 tons from 100,000 tons, and in 2021, at a high growth rate of 66.9%, the push -to -goods post throughput exceeded 300,000 tons for the first time. Guan ...

Zhengzhou see Ezhou -stress and confidence

Ezhou Airport is a competitor that Zhengzhou Airport has to pay attention to. Looking at this competitor, of course, it cannot ignore the important role behind it -SF.

According to the data, SF Holdings's wholly -owned subsidiaries contributed 2.3 billion yuan to set up Hubei International Logistics Airport Co., Ltd. (Ezhou Airport Operations) with two other companies, with a shareholding ratio of 46%. The total cargo volume of SF in 2021 was as high as 1.92 million tons, accounting for more than 26%of the industry.

Qiao Shanxun, a member of the China Aviation Society and Secretary -General of the Henan Aviation Industry Association Expert Committee, believes that the formation of a large aviation hub must require a large number of wide -body machines. The reason why Fedex and UPS can support Memphis and Louisville because they have a huge wide wide wide. Sports fleet. Most of the SF is currently a narrow body, and there are only 18 wide -body machines.

"Ezhou Airport may become an important hub airport in China, but it becomes an international hub, and it takes time to verify." Qiao Shanxun emphasized that the goal of Zhengzhou Airport is the international air freight hub.

A person interviewed by the cargo -generation enterprise believes that from the perspective of the positioning of Ezhou Airport, it will not compete with Zhengzhou Airport, but the business level will definitely overlap at the future business level and competition.

The global international aviation cargo hub is the positioning of Huahu Airport in Ezhou. According to Hubei media reports, after the international freight function is fully opened, Ezhou Airport will also open international freight routes such as Osaka and Frankfurt during the year. During the "Fourteenth Five -Year Plan" period, 10 international routes were initially planned to open up to build a "big hub, large channel, and large platform" based on the central region, serving the nation, and the world.

On August 9, the relevant person in charge of Henan Airport Group said in an interview with the reporter of the Dahe News Daily · Dahecai Cube: "The investment at Ezhou Airport is under pressure to us, but we have enough confidence. Compared with Ezhou Airport, we It has certain competitiveness in development. "

The person in charge explained that Ezhou Airport is the only professional freight airport in the country and has comparative advantages in hardware and policy support. However, it should also be seen that the cultivation of Ezhou Airport's market and three -dimensional security capabilities, including customer cognition and identity, takes time. Moreover, based on the positioning of Ezhou Airport and the factors of SF, it also requires a certain stage in the construction of the international network.

"I think there is pressure, but we still have very strong confidence." The person in charge emphasized, "(Ezhou Airport) has the impact, but it takes time to surpass Zhengzhou Airport."

Anchor 1 million tons target

Zhengzhou Airport also has established development rhythm.

The target task set by the "Fourteenth Five -Year Aviation Economic Development Plan" to Zhengzhou Airport was 45 million passengers and 1 million tons in 2025.

Why is 1 million tons? Earlier, the person in charge of Henan Provincial Airport Group said in an interview with the Dahe News Daily Dahecai Cube that this was one of the important signs of becoming a large freight aviation hub.

According to research, once the airport cargo and postal throughput reaches 1 million tons, it will form a benign interaction and rapid gathering of the industry to improve the innovation capabilities. "Others are not good."

It can be seen that the leap -up development achieved in the past Zhengzhou Airport was the result of following the "freight as the first" development strategy. Facing the next round of reform and development, 1 million tons will naturally become a breakthrough point.

However, with the investment in the second airport in many domestic cities and the opening of the Ezhou Airport at hand, it will inevitably make the complex environment of 1 million tons more complicated. Is there a problem with the goal of 1 million tons in 2025?

In this regard, the relevant person in charge of the above -mentioned Henan Provincial Airport Group said that the realization of the 1 million -ton target needs to comprehensively consider the development environment of the peripheral market.

The person in charge explained that the development speed since 2020 is so fast, the main factor is the epidemic. Prior to 2019, the transportation of cargo transportation in international and regional depending on the abdominal capacity of the international and regional passenger routes, but the impact of the epidemic caused by the impact of international passenger transportation, the advantages of the Zhengzhou airport dominated by the international and full freight airports.

With the control of the epidemic, the further recovery of international passenger routes will increase further. The person in charge stated that at the same time, the entire market environment may also change -e -commerce goods and epidemic prevention materials that have grown rapidly in the past are being gradually reduced due to the external environment.

"1 million tons is not to be achieved. It must combine a comprehensive consideration of a change in the external environment and the market environment." The person in charge told the Dahe News Daily Dahecai reporter that the investment in the North State Station will make Zhengzhou Airport sufficiently enough The ability to protect the goal, "I think (we) still have confidence to achieve this goal."

Jin Zhen, a professor at the School of Management Engineering of the Zhengzhou Academy of Aerology, at the perspective of Kim at the School of Aviation Economic Research, it seems that with the investment of Ezhou Airport, the external environment of the development of Zhengzhou Airport has changed to a certain extent. Although the current guarantee capacity has reached 1.1 million tons, the current target of 1 million tons cannot be said so much, "striving for a more realistic expression."

She also mentioned that at the beginning of this year, the "Fourteenth Five -Year Aviation Logistics Development Special Plan" issued by the Civil Aviation Administration of China predicts that during the "Fourteenth Five -Year Plan" period In 2025, 9.5 million tons. This is the first time that China Civil Aviation has prepared a special plan for the development of aviation logistics to provide precise guidance for building a high -quality, efficient, independent and controllable aviation logistics system.

"From the planning point of view, the cake of the aviation logistics market is continuously growing, and it will maintain rapid growth, and Zhengzhou Airport will also continue to develop." She specifically mentioned that Zhengzhou Airport achieved the annual average annual average of 1 million tons of cargo and postal throughput in 2025 The growth rate is basically synchronized with the average annual growth rate of the country.

It is worth noting that Qiao Shanxun specifically mentioned in the interview that from 2019 before the epidemic, only 3 airports in the world's top 20 freight airports remain positive, which indicates that the economy may have a downward trend. In his opinion, the aviation cargo market over the past two years has surrendered the future development space, and the industry may fluctuate or even bottom out.

"The goal of 1 million tons is more challenging even before the epidemic, so it is necessary to make all kinds of preparations." Qiao Shanxun emphasized.

Is the race ended?

With the opening of the Ezhou Airport, the formation of Wuhan+Ezhou's "double hub", is this the end of the central airport racing competition for many years, or the beginning of a new round of hot competition?

"The competition is definitely not over. Now everyone has not been finally formed, and it is still in the development stage." The above -mentioned interviewed cargo generation companies said that he is still optimistic about Zhengzhou because Zhengzhou has the "Air Silk Road" policy advantage, and has formed formed. International freight advantages, which laid a solid chassis for future competition.

Jin Zhen also expressed the same view. She believes that competition at central airports will continue.

However, she also mentioned that the competition between airports in the future is by no means hardware and scale competition, but the competition of comprehensive strength, which includes the cooperation of services, benefits, software and hardware. "You should not stare at the throughput alone. Although the scale is the core element, the later period is more of power disputes, service disputes and efficiency disputes."

The ambition of Ezhou Airport is to become "big hubs, large channels, and large platforms".

In this regard, Jin Zhen believes that from the perspective of aviation transportation, it is necessary to give full play to its own advantages and characteristics. The development model of the two airports is different. Ezhou Airport is the development model of relying on base companies and comprehensive logistics service providers. Judging from the recently -intensive planning of Zhengzhou's development model, it is necessary to transform traffic advantages into industrial advantages and trade advantages, which means that Zhengzhou pays more attention to the cooperation of multiple transportation methods. Integration development.

"In the process, it depends on their respective wisdom." Jin Zhen told reporters that Zhengzhou Airport and Ezhou Airport have their own long and short boards. For example, Zhengzhou Airport's hardware has been first, and the policy and institutional innovation advantages are already available. Of course, the shortcomings of Zhengzhou Airport are also obvious, such as lack of large logistics integrators and base companies. The channel is already available, but it needs to work harder in terms of network construction and soft power.

Cooperation will be the end

What will happen to the competition pattern of central airports in the future?

In Jin Zhen's view, future competition will not be disorderly.

She believes that in the goal of achieving the "Special Plan for the Development of the" Fourteenth Five -Year Plan "Aviation Logistics, multiple hub airports must be co -developed in parallel. The vicious competition situation.

During the interview, Qiao Shanxun took 6 airports in central United States as an example that the United States, which was developed in more developed aviation transportation, as a reference. Since central United States can accommodate airports with multiple million -level cargo and postal throughput in the closer region, it shows that China The central region may also coexist in multiple hubs. "Although Ezhou Airport has opened, it should not be too pessimistic for the future of Zhengzhou Airport and achieve 1 million tons." Qiao Shanxun analyzed that China may move from a large aviation country to a powerful country. It is also necessary to rise to the pillar of a aviation cargo market. "It may not be a pillar, but three or five, so it is necessary to join hands to eventually form a cargo hub airport in the central region."

(Note: In terms of transportation volume in 2019, Memphis International Airport passengers are 4.64 million/4.32 million tons, Louisville International Airport is 4.2 million/2.79 million tons, Chicago Ohel International Airport is 84.64 million, 1.78 million tons , Cincinnati North Kentucky International Airport passenger is 9.1 million/1.24 million tons, Indiannopolis International Airport is 95.37 million/1.01 million tons, and Chicago Rockeford International Airport is 190,000/430,000 tons.)

How to do Zhengzhou Airport? Qiao Shanxun believes that Henan needs to cultivate listed main companies like SF, which also puts forward higher requirements for related companies and base companies. "The aviation transportation industry is a very typical global competition. We need to build a good platform to attract outstanding talents with an international perspective and build such a company. It also needs to touch the reform and innovation of relevant institutional mechanisms.

At the same time, Qiao Shanxun suggested that Zhengzhou Airport can follow the development model of Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport.

According to the data, as early as the end of 2006, Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport jointly joint venture with the Hong Kong Airport Administration, introduced advanced management experience, realized the improvement of service quality and level of operational efficiency, and was in line with international integration. "In the future, whether Zhengzhou Airport can also explore advanced management experience introduced into international airports, such as Frankfurt, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, etc., this is also an important aspect of the construction of the" Silk Road "." He said.

Responsible editor: Shi Jian | Audit: Li Zhen | Director: Wan Junwei

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