Move battlefield
UPS chooses its new Intra-Asia Air hub from Philippines to Shenzhen. The Shenzhen Hub covering 1,290,000 Sq m with the estimated investment of USD 180 million will include an express customs handling unit, sorting facilities, cargo handling and cargo build-up areas and ramp handling operations. It can be easily expanded to a capacity of 36,000 pieces per hour which will be five times of that in Philippines. The hub aiming to reduce both transit times across Asia and operational costs will be expected to be in use in 2010.

Spring returns to Cross-Straits
Direct cross-strait charter flights on weekends are likely to start on July 4 as scheduled and flights will be arranged from Friday to Monday. Basically the Mainland has proposed Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Xiamen as destinations for the prospective cross-Strait flights and Taiwan is also ready to open Taoyuan, Kaohsiung and Taichung airports. It is expected the direct cross-strait charter flight will operate daily before the end of the year. The mainland tourist's travel will also start in July. Direct cross-strait shipping will be the point for next negotiation. Apart from Xiamen and Fuzhou, Taiwan will also actively propose Guangzhou, Tianjin, Shanghai, Qingdao and Dalian as direct shipping port.

Asia take off
IATA released the top 10 ranking for cargo airlines around world which including 5 companies in Asia. The hub is intended to focus on Asia market. KE is the top during the past 4 years. Cathay Pacific won Singapore Airlines after merging Dragon Airlines ranking third. Singapore Airlines, China Airlines and Emirates rank 4th, 6th and 8th.

Air Crisis
On Mar. 31st and Apr 1st, 21 flights of China Eastern Airlines Yunnan Branch returned to departure airports and affected more than 1500 passengers. CAAC suspended the airline operating licenses on routes of KMG-JHG, KMG-LJG and fined CNY150 million for punishment In early May, CEA also faced up 3 accidents and passengers were hurt in the cases. These series of accidents cause big trust crisis and brand loss for CEA.

To be watertight
Iron ores are holding by traders because of the rumor which the price of iron ore will highly increase. Therefore, the phenomenon which causes great numbers of iron ores accumulating in the harbor not only pushes up the ocean freight, but also does no good to Sino-Australia iron ore negotiation. From Jun 1st, stocking fees are increased twice to relax the pressure of harbor.

Expensive scanning
To anti-terrorism, America requires scanning 100 percent of the containers at 700 ports around the world. Ports of HK, Pakistan, Honduras, GB, Amman, Singapore and Korea will be the test point firstly. Opponents thought this measure will cause posts congestion and strongly beat the business in small harbors. EU pointed that traders are paying for American security and actually it's a unilateral action.