Ezhou News (Zhou Changqing, all-media reporter and Wang Yan, correspondent) On November 16, the General Office of the Ministry of Transport and the General Office of the National Development and Reform Commission jointly announced the list of the fourth batch of multimodal transport demonstration projects. The demonstration project of Ezhou Huahu Airport (a special freight hub) Multimodal Transport was included.
In 2021, Ezhou Huahu Airport (a special freight hub) applied for the national demonstration projects of multimodal transport (the fourth batch). After the airport company filed the application, it has passed formality examination, pre-examination of conditions, on-the-spot review, centralized expert evaluation and publicity. With the consent from the Ministry of Transport and the National Development and Reform Commission, the project was finally confirmed to be included in the list. After the multimodal transport project of the International Logistics Center of Sanjianggang Port in Ezhou (rail, water, highway and air) was listed in the third batch, it is the second time for Ezhou to earn its place on the list.
Multimodal transport plays an important role in building the modern comprehensive transportation system, which contributes greatly to reducing logistics cost, improving efficiency and driving the economic growth. The demonstration project of multimodal transport at Ezhou Huahu Airport (a special freight hub) will further exert economies of scale by gathering cargo, which can increase the loading rate of all-cargo aircraft by more than 20%, reducing energy consumption and CO2 emissions by over 20%, saving more than 15% transport costs, and improving express shipments speed by more than 15% with air transportation.
Based at Ezhou Huahu Airport, the project aims to create a Chinese version of hub-and-spoke aviation system to support the multimodal transport model. The "SF Express + Huahu Airport" combination will accelerate the seamless connection between air freight and high-speed rail express transportation. It will make innovations to establish the world's leading demonstration model of air-to-air intermodal transport, and drive the formation of an integrated intelligent intermodal transport standard and specification system of the "air transport + ground transport + Information" networks, with coordinated air-to-air transit and air-land intermodal transport. Ezhou Huahu Airport is determined to build an innovation demonstration base for aviation multimodal transport and global supply chain logistics center that ranks among the top in the world and excels in China.