The Shanghai Pudong International Airport Cargo Terminal Co (PACTL) handled 154,319 tonnes in May, up 13 per cent on the same month last year.
This was PACTL’s second strongest month of the year so far and in May it handled 88,847 tonnes of outbound freight (+9.6 per cent) and 65,471 tonnes of inbound traffic (+18.1 per cent).
In the month, international cargo made up 145,766 tonnes of the total and domestic cargo 8,553 tonnes.
In the first five month of 2017, PACTL has handled 718,448 tonnes, of which 407,858 was outbound cargo (+ 8.9 per cent) and 310,590 inbound (+18.1 per cent) and the five-month total was up by 11.7 per cent.
PACTL handled 158,490 tonnes in March (+11.4 per cent), 152,411 tonnes in April (+9.6 per cent), 114,387 tonnes in February (+22.8 per cent) and 138,841 tonnes in January (+4.9 per cent).