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Qatar Airways Adds Capacity to Booming Chongqing

12/15/2011 9:33:15 AM

Qatar Airways is adding capacity to Chongqing, where growing electronics manufacturing is fueling an industrial boom, amid a broader expansion of service to Asia

The three-times-weekly passenger flights from Doha will joint new flights to Beijing and four added frequencies to Hong Kong that will add space for shipping between the Middle East and China.

Although the flights are passenger operations, Qatar Airways has invested heavily in freight business with a goal of competing with Emirates Airlines for the growing trade moving through the Middle East.  

Chongqing and Chengdu, some 200 miles away, are becoming major centers of industry. The Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport recently announced a large expansion of its cargo facilities to accommodate technology manufacturing that will include the capacity for annual production 80 million laptops and 50 million cell phones within four years. 

Cathay Pacific estimates by the end of this year one in five computers worldwide will have been made in Chengdu. Cathay launched a new twice-weekly scheduled freighter service between Chengdu and Hong Kong via Shanghai in October, and serves Chongqing with a twice-weekly freighter service launched in August.

The Journal of Commerce Online

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