Cargo volumes at Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) in March saw a year-on-year increase of 4.9% to 397,000 tonnes.
Statistics from Airport Authority Hong Kong (AA)show that, during March, HKIA handled 58,000 passengers and 10,620 flights, marking year-on-year decreases of 89.9% and 12.5%, respectively.
Said an AA spokesperson: “The growth in cargo volume last month was mainly attributed to double-digit growth in imports. Despite a decline in transshipments due to a shortage of belly capacity on passenger flights, the overall cargo throughput saw an increase during the month, most significantly in the traffic to and from the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Taiwan.”
Over the first three months of the year, HKIA cargo handled rose 13% to 1.1 million tonnes. On a 12-month rolling basis, cargo traffic fell 2.0% to 4.6 million tonnes.
In March, AA completed a joint pilot project on IATA’s ONE Record digital initiative with Cathay Pacific Cargo and other members of Hong Kong’s air cargo community, with an aim to enable more efficient and accurate air cargo handling through digitalisation.
In this pilot, shipment content and status from various sources are exchanged using ONE Record models and protocols, through which a single trusted view among multiple stakeholders can be enabled.
AA made use of its newly developed cargo community platform, which is in compliance with ONE Record standard.
Cissy Chan, AA executive director, commercial, said: “We pursue digitalisation in our operations to sustain our market competitiveness as aligned to the future of business. As a smart airport, HKIA is proactively driving various innovative and technology-based initiatives for the cargo community. Through such digital collaboration, we are driving Hong Kong’s air cargo industry to enter a new frontier.”
