On May 15, approved by Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), the name of Ezhou Huahu Airport was officially changed to “Ezhou Huahu International Airport”, which serves as the first professional cargo hub airport approved as an international airport in China.
Ezhou Huahu International Airport, which began planning in June 2013, was approved for planning in April 2016 and started its full construction in May 2020, and put into operation on July 17, 2022. It has set a record of the fastest approval, the fasted construction and the fastest operation in the history of civil aviation in China, and has become a benchmark for the construction of a “safe, green, intelligent and humanistic” airport, and has been approved as a national demonstration project for the application of 5G integration of new infrastructure. The airport adopts the international leading model of “air cargo hub + leading air logistics enterprise”, which is positioned as a cargo hub, passenger branch line and public platform, and has been successively included in the national “14th Five-Year Plan” and “14th Five-Year Plan” for transportation, ports and civil aviation.
Up to now, Ezhou Huahu International Airport has opened a total of 17 international cargo routes (connecting 19 destinations) , 48 domestic cargo routes and 16 domestic passenger routes. It has initially constructed a route network layout radiating Europe, North America, Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia and Africa, with the international cargo volume increasing by leaps and bounds. The customs clearance environment tends to be convenient and efficient, the port functions are fully released, and the unique advantages of a specialized cargo hub airport are becoming increasingly apparent.
The vast expanse of rivers and the sky make it possible to travel in new directions. The renamed Huahu International Airport will join hands with Wuhan Tianhe International Airport to jointly build a “double hub” for civil aviation passenger and cargo transportation in Hubei, in an aim to further open up the inland “air access to the sea” and become a strong power source for integrating into the “ Belt and Road”. It has made new and greater contribution to the Hubei practice of accelerating the construction of national pilot zone for building a new development pattern in China and striving to promote Chinese-style modernization.