China's first sea-air intermodal transshipment arrangement directly connecting a logistics park to an airport's airside, the Dongguan-Hong Kong International Airport Logistics Park, has handled the shipment of goods worth more than 23 billion yuan since it was launched two years ago, announced Huangpu Customs on Friday.
The Logistics Park has promoted complementary advantages and seamless logistics connectivity within the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area since it went into operation on April 18, 2023.
In the past few days, a shipment of rail screw machines completed customs clearance, aviation security checks, and palletizing at the Logistics Park before being shipped by sea to Hong Kong International Airport, from where it was flown directly to Southeast Asia.
"The Logistics Park can help companies save up to 30 percent of total logistics costs. Right now, from the moment goods are handed over to the Logistics Park to the time they're loaded on a plane, the whole process can be completed within14 hours at best. Once dedicated high-speed cargo vessels are in operation, logistics time can be further reduced by another two or three hours," said Wen Yuanyun, vice president of Dongguan Port Air Freight Supply Chain Co., Ltd.
The Logistics Park connects regulations and systems between Guangdong Province, in which the city of Dongguan is located, and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, extending key cargo handling functions of Hong Kong International Airport into Dongguan, which enables direct air cargo export loading and import unloading. "Besides local Dongguan companies, companies in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Foshan have also come to us to ship their goods out through the center. This year we've been handling and palletizing about 1,000 tons of cargo each month. That's a tenfold increase of business volume from two years ago, and our clients have more than quadrupled," said Li Zheyan, vice president of Dongguan Jinming International Freight Forwarding Co., Ltd.
Currently, the Logistics Park handles over 1,000 types of goods with a shipment capacity of 24,000 tons, accelerating global access for manufacturers across the Greater Bay Area.
Dongguan-HK airport park handles 23 bln yuan of goods
Russia said on Wednesday that its armed forces gained control over a settlement in Zaporizhzhia region in southeastern Ukraine, while Ukraine said on the same day that its armed forces attacked multiple Russian strategic infrastructure.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said in its latest report that Russian forces brought under controlled the Zarechnoye Settlement in Zaporizhzhia Region and attacked Ukrainian troops in the direction of Sumy and Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine over the past 24 hours.
The ministry also said that over the past day, Russian forces struck Ukrainian military-industrial enterprises, energy facilities, transportation infrastructure, and temporary deployment points of Ukrainian troops and foreign mercenaries across 147 locations.
Meanwhile, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said in a war report released on Wednesday that Ukrainian forces attacked multiple Russian targets earlier on the day.
The report said that a synthetic rubber plant, which was located in the Russian city of Yefremov in the Tula Region and was used to produce components for plastic explosives and key raw materials for solid rocket fuel, was attacked.
It also reported that the Ukrainian forces struck a Russian base for unmanned vessel storage and maintenance in Crimea.
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on the same day that Russian forces thwarted a planned sabotage and terrorist attack targeting critical infrastructure in the Tyumen Region.
According to the FSB, the suspect acted on orders from Ukrainian special services and planned an attack on a dispatch station of a major oil pipeline operated by the Russian company Transneft.
The individual attempted to extract components he had bought from a cache to assemble an improvised explosive device earlier on the day. When security personnel tried to capture him, he offered armed resistance and was eventually neutralized, the FSB said.
Also on Wednesday, Ihor Terekhov, mayor of Kharkiv, said that a thermal power plant on the outskirts of the city was attacked by Russian forces on the day, resulting in one death and 13 injuries so far.
Additionally, the attack has directly impacted local heating supply and public transportation operations.
Russia claims controlling new settlement, Ukraine reports striking Russian strategic infrastructure
