Ezhou, located in the east of Wuhan, is adjacent to Wuhan's East Lake Hi-tech Zone. Looking at the whole country, Ezhou is not a very well-known prefecture-level city. In the past two years, because of the SF airport settled and was the media buzz, so "it", our Ezhou, what exactly is the charm of the characteristics of the courier big old SF Prime Minister? Sunfeng airport schematic (aviation, water transport, railroads, highways integrated hub)

We all know the industry has a saying, China has only two kinds of courier companies, one is Shunfeng, the other is not Shunfeng's three passes a da. Although this statement is a bit extreme, but indeed in the courier industry SF has been firmly occupying the industry high-end, leading the industry development trend.

Taking the high-end air courier as an example, North and South East round-trip cargo flow asymmetry, such as the North-South cargo routes are often fully loaded to fly over, but often fly back to the load is not enough, how to solve this problem? Drawing on foreign experience, a core logistics transit center should be built, all aircraft first fly logistics transit center, and then unified deployment and then fly destination.

In this regard, one of the most successful examples is the United States Memphis logistics center, FedEx through this logistics center greatly enhanced the use of aviation aircraft and efficiency, from a small company in the industry to grow into the world's express delivery industry giant. Obviously, in the face of Ali's share of Yuantong, Jingdong self-built logistics competition, SF expects to take the lead in the domestic logistics industry by taking the lead in the establishment of the international leading air logistics center in Ezhou, once again leading the domestic logistics industry, in this sense, the significance of SF self-built airports is no less important than the year of the start-up.

Then the question came ......

What kind of place is suitable for the construction of aviation logistics center?

Comprehensive Memphis experience, the following conditions are necessary

1) must be the center of economic geography;

2) preferably at the same time is the railroad, highway hubs, and waterway connectivity;

3) the surrounding support has a certain economic base and living support, can gather industrial talent;

4) perfect port clearance function;

Next we analyze one by one Please note that the term "economic geographic center" is not the physical center of land area. In the case of Memphis, for example, its location is slightly more to the east than to the center of the U.S. Why? From the night satellite map can most clearly illustrate this problem, although in recent years the western United States Silicon Valley development is very fast, but the United States as a whole urban agglomeration and population distribution is still biased in the east of the courier business volume and population distribution is positively correlated, therefore, the FedEx Express center to choose to build in Memphis, more close to the center of the economic geographic center, rather than the geographic center of the country's land area. Satellite map of the U.S. at night (the brighter the lights, the denser the population and towns)

Schematic of the Memphis airport's location

But, frankly, Memphis isn't the perfect location, why? Because in addition to aviation, the best local railroads, highways, waterways, multi-modal transportation hub would be perfect, so then UPS chose not far from Memphis, Louisville (because the railroad conditions are better, see Figure 3 U.S. railroad distribution). I predict that the construction and operation of Shunfeng airport is bound to trigger a demonstration effect in the country, several other provinces in central China (such as Yueyang in northeastern Hunan Province, Jiujiang in northwestern Jiangxi Province, etc.) have a good chance of being selected by the other courier companies as an air transit hub.

U.S. railroad network distribution map

The other mountain stone can attack jade, after analyzing the U.S. hub airport location, and then look at China's satellite night map.

It is clear that China's development is much more uneven, with the northwest almost in darkness, so if you choose to locate in the geographic center of Xi'an, it's certainly not the most economical, and therefore central regions such as Wuhan are a good choice.

from the three major development areas of North, Shanghai, Shenzhen (Guangzhou) isometric are 1,000 kilometers, with the most likely fourth pole of Chengdu Chongqing, is also 1,000 kilometers;

And Hubei is also by the Yangtze River, the development of the cheapest water transport;

North and South Railway lifeline of Beijing-Guangzhou and East-West artery of Shanghai-Rong in the convergence of this;

Roadway, the Daguan Expressway and Shanghai-Yuyu also in the convergence of this; It can be said that geographic location Shunfeng is fully considered a variety of convenient conditions, the only regret is that the distance from the Northeast is a little far.

Wuhan City Circle is located in the center of the North, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hibiscus

But the Wuhan airspace itself is the east-west and north-south planes are bound to pass through the place to increase the cargo airport is difficult to choose, so the distance is not far from Ezhou, Ezhou Shunfeng Airport can be said to be Wuhan's cargo airport in a sense is not too much. Moreover, the city railway from Ezhou to Wuhan has been opened, and is adjacent to Wuhan Optics Valley, which also provides a guarantee for the local cargo source.

Wuhan to Ezhou Intercity Railway (Shunfeng Airport is located at the Huahu Station)

Then again, the surrounding facilities. Across the river from Ezhou is Huanggang City, to the south is Huangshi City, and to the east is adjacent to Wuhan City, which is a good location as far as logistics is concerned. At the same time, the economic foundation of Ezhou is good, and the port of Ezhou, as an important port along the Yangtze River, is well equipped with the relevant customs and infrastructures.

And the airport location, just between Ezhou and Huangshi, a blank undeveloped land, development potential, from Huangshi, Ezhou, Huanggang city are very close to the future park staff life, education support is not a problem, Huanggang, Ezhou, Huangshi, education resources are very good, conducive to long-term development of enterprises such as SF.

Overall, if the smooth progress of SF, the future will certainly inject new impetus for the development of Ezhou, but also inevitably for the courier industry to bring catfish effect , the central neighboring provinces on the new cargo airport probability is also very large. As for Ezhou, the rise of China's "Memphis", the future will be unlimited.