august2022 - 28

Airports
Officials
at Taiwan
Taoyuan have
an eye on cargo
operations and
intend to turn
the airport into
an important
transshipment,
logistics and
added-value
base in East
Asia.
Taiwan Taoyuan International
Airport in Expansion Mode
Driven by the need to meet demand growth,
TTIA is upgrading existing facilities for future challenges.
BY MANIK MEHTA
S
ituated in the vast expanse of water called the Taiwan
Strait in the East Asia region, the planners at
the Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport (TTIA),
located in Taoyuan County in the northwestern area of
Taiwan and some 25 miles from the downtown area of
Taipei City, have gone on an expansion course to meet
the anticipated demand growth and also the ensuing
infrastructure upgrading that will be required.
Aviation experts, closely monitoring the airport's expansion,
have been talking about its new Terminal 3 (T3) which airport
officials say " simply elevates its prospects of becoming a hub "
in the region. The airport's traffic will be considerably boosted
and provide new levels of service, enhance operational efficiency
and convenience to passengers. It is also the single largest public
engineering project currently underway in the island nation.
According to the airport planners, the new T3 is set to open in
three stages, starting in 2024. The $3 billion terminal is " badly
needed, " according to Lin Kuo-Shian, the chairman of the Taoyuan
International Airport Corp. (TIAC), a government-owned
corporation responsible for the management of the TTIA. The
airport had already exceeded in 2019 its annual capacity of the
existing terminals at the airport when it handled more than 48.6
million passengers.
Lin explains that the sharp drop in passenger traffic during
the pandemic caused major airports around the world to suffer
large losses.
" Many international airports have stopped operation, or have
even closed. Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport also ran
a deficit in these two years. However, TTIA's progress has not
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stopped, because passenger and cargo traffic of the country rely
on air transportation: Taiwan's exports are still growing and
therefore boost the freight during the pandemic. This is critical
to the national economy. What we hope is that more people and
goods in neighboring countries can transfer or process at TTIA.
The higher density will make it more convenient for people to
enter and exit, " Lin says.
Cargo Warehousing and
Transport Facilities Expansion
Lin says that the 2040 cargo traffic at the airport is expected to
exceed 4.02 million metric tons; the airport plans to develop a
new 100-hectare air cargo park and the second free trade port in
the airport northeast.
" These projects, scheduled to be completed in 2030, will be
the twin engines powering TTIA's future air cargo growth. The
entire area has adopted a design ethos that emphasizes 3D warehousing,
smart technology and automation, with central management
replacing the current decentralized model, " he says.
TIAC, which plans to put all future air cargo entrepots and
warehousing facilities in the air cargo park, will draft management
norms and standards that regulate personnel management,
vehicle connections and each point of cargo facilitation,
such as entering and exiting warehouses and loading docks. In
response to the ever-growing demand for cross-border and cold
chain logistics, TIAC will install equipment such as express
storage facilities and temperature controlled warehouses, and
will urge incoming businesses to acquire relevant international
certification.
TIAC
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