By Li Hui

At about 16 o’clock on 10 August, an Air Central Boeing 737-800 all cargo plane reached Nantong airport, which marked the official opening of Nantong ⇌Zhengzhou all cargo flight route, which provided a new channel of cargo air transport in the Yangtze River delta area.

There will be 3 flights per week for the flight course according to plan, later it will be increased to 6 flights per week. On 10 August, about 18 tons of cargo arrived, which was fresh aquatic products imported from Manila; about 18.6 tons of cargo left, which was mainly automobile parts manufactured in Nantong and nearby areas. After fast unloading of workers, 636 boxes of fresh aquatic products were loaded to trucks, and transported to Shanghai Jiangyang Aquatic Products Wholesale Trading Market. Ms. Li, who was doing aquatic product wholesale business in Shanghai, said that in the past when they imported this type of aquatic products, they had to go to ports in places such as Nanjing and Zhengzhou, as the transport by land took long time, the loss rate of fresh aquatic products was relatively large. After the new flight course was open at Nantong airport, transport time was reduced to a large exten.