Cargo flight movements declined 6.8 percent, year-over-year, last month. Year-to-date, cargo volume at the airport has declined 3.4 percent, with passenger volume rising, year-to-date, by 5.8 percent.
“Despite the recent drop in cargo throughput due to the slowdown in imports and exports, I am confident that our long-term prospects remain promising as the Mainland’s economy continues to boom and Hong Kong also remains on a steady growth path,” Stanley Hui Hon-chung, Airport Authority Hong Kong’s CEO, said in a statement.
“The growth momentum in passenger traffic underlines the need to develop and enhance our facilities,” he added. Underlining this passenger-driven success is HKIA’s midfield development — an HK$9 billion project that includes a 78,000-square-foot passenger terminal — which broke ground on December 9. Plans also call for additional cargo parking stands, which will allow HKIA to boost its cargo volumes to 6 million tonnes annually.
Cargo flight movements declined 6.8 percent, year-over-year, last month. Year-to-date, cargo volume at the airport has declined 3.4 percent, with passenger volume rising, year-to-date, by 5.8 percent.
“Despite the recent drop in cargo throughput due to the slowdown in imports and exports, I am confident that our long-term prospects remain promising as the Mainland’s economy continues to boom and Hong Kong also remains on a steady growth path,” Stanley Hui Hon-chung, Airport Authority Hong Kong’s CEO, said in a statement.
“The growth momentum in passenger traffic underlines the need to develop and enhance our facilities,” he added. Underlining this passenger-driven success is HKIA’s midfield development — an HK$9 billion project that includes a 78,000-square-foot passenger terminal — which broke ground on December 9. Plans also call for additional cargo parking stands, which will allow HKIA to boost its cargo volumes to 6 million tonnes annually.