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Tianjin, the largest port city in north China, has opened its first air cargo route to Europe using a Boeing 747-400.

Chen Kaiping, the president of Great Wall Airlines, the joint venture cargo airline that is operating the route said the service will fly to Amsterdam three times a week and to Manchester via Amsterdam twice a week.

He also said, which seems to be certain, that the service will help Binhai International Airport in Tianjin become north China’s cargo hub.

Great Wall Airlines was established by Beijing Aerospace Satellite Application, Singapore Airlines Cargo and Dahlia Investments in 2005.
Source: China View

Great Wall Airlines is now flying a freighter service to Tianjin. The new cargo flights will be operated by its B747-400 freighter fleet with a frequency of five flights a week flying the Pudong-Tianjin-Amsterdam route and two routed through Pudong-Tianjin-Amsterdam and Manchester.

Great Wall Airlines is the first carrier to offer direct schedules on all-cargo flights to Europe from Tianjin.

President of Tianjin Binhai International Airport Shao Dengxiang said. ‘Our plans to improve airport facilities are proceeding well. By 2010, the annual cargo turnover at Tianjin Airport will reach 500,000 tonnes.’

President of Great Wall Airlines Tan Kai Ping said. ‘in a few months, we will be announcing the launch of services to the United States.’

Great Wall Airlines is an all cargo airline based in Shanghai Pudong Airport. It operates a fleet of three B747-400 freighters, with a network covering the major cargo hubs of Amsterdam, Manchester and Dubai.
Source: CargoNews International

In Australia it is called a ute, short for utility, and every farmer, or would-be farmer, has one. Often gussied up to the nines with all sorts of embellishments. It is not the sort of machine you associate with China. And yet it is big time.

The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers has announced that China’s major pickup truck producers sold 84,755 units in the first half of this year, with domestically-owned brands accounting for nearly 80% of the total sales.

Great Wall, Zhongxing and Zhengzhou-Nissan were the top three sellers.

Between January and June, 25,016 Great Wall pickup trucks were sold, or 29.5% of the total sales. They were followed by Zhongxing pickup trucks with sales of 14,287, or 16.9% and then by Zhongzhou-Nissan pickup trucks with sales of 13,033, 15.4%.

China’s total vehicle sales amounted to 4.37 million in the six-month period, a growth of 23.3% on the same period of last year. Last year China became the world’s second largest market for new vehicles after the United States, with annual sales at 7.22 million.

There is something very tempting about the idea of hooning around the Australian outback in a Great Wall ute. And have no doubt that some day, soon, that will not only be possible, it will be commonplace.
Source: China.org.cn