OREANDA-NEWS. Last year, growth rate of international air freight volume in Chongqing Airport ranked first among the ten major airports while its freight throughput ranked Top 8 nationwide.

An officer in charge of Chongqing Airport revealed that, based on the statistic data in 2012, international air freight volume of Chongqing was 88870t, with year-on-year growth rate of 49.9%. The imported volume was 26782t, with year-on-year growth rate of 25.6%, and the exported volume is 62088t, with year-on-year growth rate of 63.5%. Such high growth is benefited from the industrial magnates, such as HP, Acer and Asus, and the OEMs of Foxconn, Quanta, Inventec and Compal as well as the suppliers of support industry chain, which settle in Chongqing.

It is reported that international (regional) freight transport system of Chongqing Airport will be more developed in the future. By now, there have been 18 all-cargo air lines which schedule nearly 40 cargo frights weekly. Over 10 cargo airlines are participating in operation.