Suvarnabhumi Airport Set To Become Regional Cargo Hub

[george]

Suvarnabhumi Airport set to become regional hub

BANGKOK: -- Able to move six million tonnes of freight per year, Suvarnabhumi Airport--which began full commercial operations September 28--is on its way to becoming Southeast Asia's regional cargo hub.

Supachai Kaewsiri, director of the Information Technology Division of Thai Airport Ground Services (TAGS), said that his firm has invested Bt700 million in establishing its Airport Cargo Community System (ACCS) connected with the cargo network of the newly opened airport in Bangkok.

During the past 27 days, Supachai said, TAGSs supervision of the IT network in Suvarnabhumi proved a smooth operation as planned. Right now both cargo and baggage transport are operated by Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and ACCS.

German consultants have recommend that both systems be used in parallel for the initial three months so as to allow entrepreneurs to familialise themselves with the new IT system of ACCS.

Mr. Suphachai added that Suvarnabhumi Airport's cargo warehouse has served about 10,000 business operators. When ACCS is in full use in January 2007, Suvarnabhumi is highly likely to become the primary cargo hub for all of Southeast Asia, because cargo services will be centred at one stop.

--TNA 2006-10-27

[Wolfie]

Thailand, the Hub of Hubs!

[Spenthouse]

i have an idea - lets use suvarnabhumi only for cargo and make don muang the passenger hub of southeast asia.

[Sunny Valentine]

Maybe I should post this in the forum help section: Is there a feature not unlike the "ignore user" list that would allow us to enter words like "Crackdown" or "Hub" to have the corresponding posts to disappear atthe forum?

Sunny

[Casanundra]

So if Thailand is going to be the main cargo hub of Asia, what happened to the super efficient Singapore and Hong Kong then?

Does Thailand honestly believe that they will become the main hub based on cheaper costs, a nice smile and a new inefficient airport... surely they aren't serious with this vision?

In the mean time, Singapore and Hong Kong are just going to pack up and leave that market in favour of Thailand.... err me thinks not!

In all reality Thailand will probably entice the business in with their superficial gloss, smiles and super buffed up floors and windows only for reality to kick in as the cargo business goes back to the more efficient hubs again.

[PhilHarries]

i have an idea - lets use suvarnabhumi only for cargo and make don muang the passenger hub of southeast asia.

No, I,m changing my flight in December from AirAsia to Thai Cargo it seems a more efficient alternative.

[Thaising]

Cargo delays likely until early next year

Shippers will experience difficulty with cargo consignments at the newly opened Suvarnabhumi Airport until early next year.

Since the airport's opening on September 28, a large volume of cargo has been stuck at the airport's duty-free cargo zone, because of computer-system malfunctions.

Supachai Keowsiri, IT Division director at Thai Airport Ground Services (Tags), said many agencies and private companies had not been ready to link their computers to the airport's newly developed Air Cargo Communities System (ACCS).

However, the airport has tried to fix the problem by using both the existing Electronic Data System and the new ACCS in parallel.

Airports of Thailand (AOT), operator of the new airport, has hired wholly owned subsidiary Tags to manage the ACCS and link all IT data in the airport's duty-free cargo zone, with an investment of Bt700 million.

Tags, along with three allies - AMR Asia, Hexaware Technologies, and International Research Corp - joined in development of the ACCS, which was tested and handed over to AOT in June. Tags will be the operator of the system over the next two years.

Supachai said Tags has conducted training for all participants, as outlined in the contract. "I believe all participants should be ready to use the system in early 2007."

ONLY IF THEY COULD SOLVE AND COMPETE, OR ESLE NOTHINGS BUT DREAMING.

[Axel]

Regional Cargo Hub....

I wnted to comment earlier, but had a severe attack of laughing.

Have an airline send a shipment by mistake to Bangkok. Takes you 4 weeks to get it out as there is no importer who can vouch it was a mistake.

Send 1000 kgs to BKK and try to seperate and re-export 10x100 kg-lots.

Send a normal shipment to Bangkok and try to re-forward by ship.

One thing might work, send your cargo to BKK-airport and reorward by truck to Vientiane.

You just hire two trucks, put two customs officers on top (of the trucks that is) to guarantee bonded transportation.

Shall I go on? No cannot, I am still laughing.

[Maizefarmer]

Axel is right - if things go smoothly at the new cargo centre then you are okay, but the moment if slightest messup occurs - you know you have a nightmare on your hands.

It's not so much the ability to avoid mistakes that concerns shippers, its how effieicently mistakes are deal't when they do occur, and I know from personal experiance that the system relies on nothing going wrong in the first place , so much so that when it does go wrong! - believe me, it is a problem.

HK also had teething problems with cargo in a very big way, but they have now got it sorted.

Bkk has a long way to go to catch up with HK and with the changes that are coming to Singapores Changi Airport over the next 18 - 24 months, BKK has got its work cut out to keep up what is an already well oiled and working system that is only going to get better.

Nope, the idea that Bkk will be a major cargo hub sounds good. The reality is they have a lot to do before they can compete.

Tim

[Rinrada]

What the new airport urgently needs at the moment is a cargo load of toilet paper......

[ImageDude]

What the new airport urgently needs at the moment is a cargo load of toilet paper......

. . . and maybe ship in some more toilets . . I found the toilets had only 2 stalls and 1 urinal and a rather long queue

Hoping not to get taken short

ImageDude

[STEELINOX]

BANGKOK: -- Able to move six million tonnes of freight per year, Suvarnabhumi Airport--which began full commercial operations September 28--is on its way to NOT becoming Southeast Asia's regional cargo hub.

Supachai Kaewsiri, director of the DIS-Information Technology Division of Thai Airport Ground Services (TAGS), said that his firm has invested Bt700 million the continued fleecing of people in the LOS.

During the past 27 days, Supachai said, TAGSs supervision of the IT network in Suvarnabhumi proved a smooth operation as planned but if one frakking hiccup were to occur then game frakken over!

German consultants have recommend that both systems be used in parallel for the initial three months so as to capitoloze on the inability for Thais to get their shiot together before the wannabe airport opened.

Mr. Suphachai added that Suvarnabhumi Airport's cargo warehouse has served about 10,000 business operators. When ACCS is in full use in January 2007, Suvarnabhumi is highly likely to become the primary cargo hub for all of Southeast Asia, because cargo services will be centred at one stop. (More like one stopped up clusterfrak of cargo nextdoor to a passenger terminal with not enough toilets that will be replaced for B200m - MORE DREAMS and means to fleece the people in the LOS !

[Tony Clifton]

It looks like the HUB minister hasn't been shoved aside by the coup.

[STEELINOX]

Latka ! LOL!

[englishoak]

Thailand = Center of the Universe

[Thaddeus]

Thailand = Center of the Universe

Hubba hubba

Anybody else sick of hearing the word 'Hub' (one above I know)....... they haven't got a clue (not Thai bashing, I don't need to, it's self inflicted)

[Tony Clifton]

It looks like the HUB minister hasn't been shoved aside by the coup.

Latka ! LOL!

Latka's dead man. Tony Clifton lives on! Bahhhhr!

Andy

Edited October 27, 2006 by Tony Clifton

[astral]

Thailand = Center of the Universe

Of course.

[MrSnrang]

Wow. It's been a month that Thaksin and his cronies have been out of power but the things I see in the news are still retarded.

How can they look forward to be a regional cargo transport "hub" if they lose track of a container of toy guns and springs?

[Heng]

It'll likely continue to be a cargo specific regional hub (and spoke). Not suprising that most of the ill informed whingers here don't know that about 40% of the X million tons of air cargo that goes through Bangkok is live ornamental and food fish. One of our businesses is importing -by air cargo- seedling (that means baby) catfish, perch, bass, goby, etc. fish, growing them to desireable weight/size for several weeks to several months, and then either forwarding them to another destination or shipping them back to their origin. Hub and spoke wise, at least for us... that's typically Taipei/HK/Jakarta/Hanoi/KL --> ***BKK*** --> Taipei/HK/Jakarta/Hanoi/KL + several non-origin destinations: most notably Tokyo/Osaka/Oz/Indian destinations, etc.

This industry lends itself perfectly to being a regional hub and spoke with Thailand at the center. Hello: it's nothing new, it's already been this way for 30+ years.... but yes, like a lot of industries (particularly in an increasingly overpopulated and hungry world) there's room for growth.