Shanghai Pudong Airport Initiates Phase-4 Expansion

During Phase-4 of the expansion project, an additional terminal building will be constructed to meet the airport’s rising passenger demands. The new T3 terminal is expected to serve 50 million passengers each year, allowing 130 million annual passengers to travel through Pudong airport by 2030.To get more shanghai airport latest news, you can visit shine news official website.

The terminal will span across 1.19 million square metres and will feature twin terminal buildings, with nearly 100 aircraft stands for international and domestic flights.A new 1.03 million-square-metre transport centre will also be connected to the terminal to allow travellers to conveniently transfer to and from public transport. The Airport Express Line, Metro lines 2 and 21, and the Shanghai East Railway Station will all be linked with the new terminal to provide efficient transport links.

This fourth phase of the expansion project follows the completion of Phase-3 in 2019, which included the world’s largest satellite terminal, covering 620,000 square metres.The city-wide lockdown in Shanghai, initially expected to end today, has been extended indefinitely amid a rise in COVID-19 cases, causing further disruptions to cargo operations at Shanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG) and Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport (SHA). As containment attempts persist for the latest COVID-19 outbreak persist, the city’s testing campaign also continues. “At […]

Shanghai's Pudong and Hongqiao airports have received 26 charter flights with medical teams from seven provinces and cities – here to assist in the city's fight against COVID-19.

The first charter flight from central China's Henan Province landed at Hongqiao airport at 2:46pm on Sunday, greeted by airport controllers waiting on the tarmac.

Other charter flights landed at the two airports through midnight on Sunday, the Shanghai Airport Authority said.

More than 20,000 medics from across China have arrived in Shanghai to help in the treatment of the surging number of COVID-19 infections and conduct citywide nucleic acid testing on Monday.

With most airport staff under lockdown, the airport authority dispatched a 23-member emergency support team from Pudong airport to Hongqiao airport, which handled most of the charter flights of domestic medical teams.

After the landing of each aircraft, all the staffers on the tarmac had to rush to help unload the luggage, which included vital medical supplies.

The mobile stairs and trailers were disinfected. Coaches drove to the tarmac to pick up the medics and take them to their accommodations directly.

The assisting medical teams, including polymerase chain reaction (PCR) sample collection personnel, are primarily from neighboring Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui provinces, as well as Tianjin City, central Hubei and eastern Jiangxi provinces.

Many of them are collecting PCR samples and assisting patient treatments at 10 local designated and makeshift hospitals.