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Air
Freight Asia Report - Payload Asia March 2006
PACTL excited about the challenges to come
A session entitled “Are airports seriously
investing in cargo?” started with a presentation
on Pudong Air Cargo Terminals Limited by Cai Hao,
its general manager. “Our objective is first
class management, first class service and above
all neutrality,” said Cai.
“For example, while Lufthansa Cargo is a 29
percent shareholder, they get treated absolutely
the same way as any other customer. There is no
preferential treatment at all.”
He added that PACTL now had 34 airline
customers, including the majority of the
international airlines serving Shanghai Pudong
airport.
In all, PACTL has a market share of 40 percent
of international cargo passing through the
airport. Its facilities are twice those the size
of the rival China Eastern terminal, which along
with Shanghai Airlines are the other two
terminal operators at the airport.
Cai Hao
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“The reason that most international
airlines choose PACTL is the high
quality of our services,” Cai said.
"One of our advantages is our IT system,
Hermes, which we installed last year. We
are so impressed with this system that
we are now the GSA for it in China.”
He also pointed to the road feeder
services PACTL provides, which now
extend to 29 cities. PACTL handled
810,898 tonnes of cargo in 2005,
compared to 1,855,480 tonnes for the
airport as a whole. That compares with
610,285 tonnes for PACTL and 1,639,004
for the airport in 2004.
“This shows you how strong the
performance of foreign airlines has been
at Pudong this year,” Cai said. “More
and more freighter services have
started, and in the last three years the
amount of freighter cargo has more than
tripled. 70 percent of our cargo now
comes from freighters.”
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Reviewing future developments at Shanghai, Cai
said a second area of cargo facilities would be
built, with PACTL and China Eastern each getting
a facility of 11,000 square metres, and Shanghai
Airlines 15,000 square metres. But PACTL also
had a further 6,000 square metres of land for
expansion, he said.
The airport’s growth forecast was for an average
rise of 26 percent a year for the next five
years, while international cargo was predicted
to rise by 18 percent a year in the same period.
A third runway of 3,400 metres would come into
use at the end of 2007, and with that the
airport would be able to handle 4.5 million
tonnes of cargo a year by 2015.
“A lot of changes will happen in the next few
years, and PACTL is very excited by these
changes,” Cai concluded. “We feel that we have
the opportunity to be one of the top cargo
terminal operators in the world.”
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