Official announcement!Officially put into operation on July 17

It is learned from the Provincial Development and Reform Commission that after the joint efforts of relevant parties, the first and the world's fourth professional freight hub airport -Ezhou Huahu Airport is scheduled to hold an investment ceremony on July 17, which will be included in China Airlines The important moment of the history of logistics development is also the milestone incident in the economic and social development of Hubei. It will definitely promote Hubei to build the motherland to open a new coast to the outside world and help China participate in the international logistics market competition at a higher level.

According to the relevant person in charge of the Provincial Development and Reform Commission, Huahu Airport is a iconic project for Hubei to implement the national strategy and major infrastructure layout. After sailing, it will accelerate the shortcomings of comprehensive transportation development in Hubei, improve transportation efficiency, promote Hubei's transformation and development, open development, and high -quality development, and accelerate the construction of a new development area for the construction of a new development pattern.

It was initially planned in 2014 to be completed and put into operation in 2022, which lasted 8 years before and after. Preliminary statistics, the total investment of the Ezhou Huahu Airport project is 30.842 billion yuan, consisting of airport engineering, transfer centers and SF Airline base projects, and fuel supply projects. Among them, the airport project is 14.812 billion yuan, and the transfer center is 11.529 billion yuan.

In August 2015, the Hubei International Logistics Core Hub project was listed as the "number one project" in the province. On September 17, 2020, Hubei Province and the Chinese Civil Aviation Administration held a work talks in Wuhan. The two parties decided to jointly promote the establishment of the central region of the central region of Wuhan Tianhe Airport, and the Huahu Airport of Ezhou to build a first -class air freight hub to form Huahu Airport and Wuhan Tianhe. Airport "Two Passenger and Freight" pattern.

According to reports, Ezhou Huahu Airport is designed in accordance with the requirements of meeting 1 million passengers in 2025 and 2.45 million tons of cargo and postal throughput. The airport operation guarantee level is 4E. In this period, two long -distance parallel runway and sliding track systems in the east and west are built. The runway is 3600 meters long and 45 meters wide. The runway is 1900 meters. , 15,000 square meters of terminals and 124 machine stations. The airport will focus on freight, supplemented by passenger transport, and benchmarking the US Memphis Airport. It has successively opened about 10 international freight routes and about 50 domestic routes. It has gradually become a first -class air freight hub, focusing on building a new highland in China and even the Asia -Pacific region.

Grab sunny days and rainy days, tens of thousands of builders fought in Malaysia and successfully completed various construction tasks. On December 29, 2021 and March 19, 2022, the airport successfully achieved school flights and test flights. At present, the transfer center is still seizing construction, and strives to start the freight function at the end of November.

At present, the conditions of the airport software and hardware facilities have passed various inspections, evaluations, and evaluations, which meet the navigation conditions. According to the preliminary arrangements, there will be a SF plane and China Southern Airlines passenger planes on the same day to take off from Shenzhen, Beijing and other places, passing the Civil Aviation Beijing -Guangzhou Channel, and landing at Huahu Airport in Ezhou.

It is understood that after the completion of the Huahu Airport, Wuhan Tianhe Airport will be dominated by passengers. The Huahu Airport of Ezhou is mainly cargo, leading the central region, and radiating the nation's aviation passenger and freight hub. At the same time, fully do the Optics Valley Science and Technology Innovation Corridor, promote Wuhan, Ezhou, Huanggang, Huangshi and other places to develop air economic development, and form an industrial gathering area and new economic growth pole.

Source: Hubei Daily All Media Reporter Hu 祎, Correspondent Lu Cheng

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