Aviation Circle Before August this year, Nanjing Lukou International Airport has not landed in and out of the country for two years. Unexpectedly, the chartered flight of TSMC, a Taiwanese businessman, became the first in and out of the country for in and out of the country for two years, and this customer alone can bring hundreds of cargo flights.
Taiwanese media came on August 17 with " Zhang Zhongmou ! Nanjing Lukou Airport, which has not landed for two years, has shown vitality," said that the arrival of TSMC has brought the Nanjing Airport freight to regain vitality.
reported that at 3 a.m. on August 5, a special cargo charter flight of China Airlines CI5993, which took off from , Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport, successfully landed at Nanjing Lukou Airport. The engineers were careful to carry the precision equipment on the aircraft, fearing that if you accidentally break the equipment worth billions of yuan.
Taiwan Mirror Weekly reported that "This is the cargo flight route of Nanjing Lukou Airport in October 2015. Before 2015, Lukou Airport was grounded due to the low traffic volume. After two years of departure, the first cargo charter plane landed at the airport was all TSMC equipment shipped from Taiwan." In other words, the special charter plane transporting TSMC equipment brought vitality to Lukou Airport.
However, Taiwanese media reported that the "cargo plane route grounding" at Nanjing Airport in October 2015 was not accurate, but the "inbound and outbound cargo routes" were grounded because domestic cargo flights at Nanjing Airport have been flying, but only cargo routes to overseas are grounded.
According to the aviation circle, TSMC is a semiconductor manufacturing company in Taiwan. It was established in 1987 and is the world's first and largest professional integrated circuit manufacturing service (wafer foundry) company. In 2016, its revenue was NT$947.9 billion NT$4 (about 208.6 billion yuan), and its revenue in the first seven months of 2017 was NT$519.4 billion (about 114.3 billion yuan). TSMC has signed a US$3 billion investment to build a 12-inch wafer factory and a design service center in Nanjing, which is expected to be put into production in 2018.
According to the news released by the official website of Nanjing Airport, at 02:23 am on August 5, a China Airlines 747-400 all-cargo aircraft carrying 44.6 tons of TSMC factory construction equipment landed at Nanjing Lukou International Airport, opening the prelude to the resumption of China Airlines cargo aircraft and the import and departure of TSMC (Nanjing) Company factory construction equipment. This is the Nanjing Airport port that has resumed operations since the all-in-exit cargo routes in October 2015.
The resumption of flight of China Airlines cargo planes is due to the construction of TSMC in Nanjing, and large-scale factory construction equipment is required. Since the equipment is all high-precision equipment, air transport must be adopted.
China Airlines has adopted the "1+3" flight support model of three cargo charter flights per week and one regular cargo plane at Nanjing Airport. It is expected that the first phase of equipment transportation project will last for more than half a year, with 106 flying cargo planes and an imported cargo volume of more than 6,000 tons.
According to the aviation circle, Nanjing Lukou International Airport is positioned as "China's large international portal and hub airport, air cargo and express delivery distribution center." The first phase of Nanjing Airport project was officially opened on July 1, 1997. On July 12, 2014, the second phase of the project was put into use, and Lukou Airport entered the era of dual runways and dual terminals. Currently, it has a 4F-class flight zone, two parallel runways, two terminals, two domestic and international cargo centers, and one comprehensive transportation center. Its guarantee capacity can meet the annual flight capacity of 360,000 flights, passenger throughput of 30 million passengers, and cargo and mail throughput of 800,000 tons.
Nanjing Lukou International Airport had passenger traffic in 2016 of 22.36 million, ranking 12th among mainland China airports, with a cargo volume of 340,000 tons, ranking 11th among mainland China airports.
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