Hong Kong airport’s latest figures showed resilient cargo performance over the last year as 2021 volume jumped 12.5 percent year on year to 5 million tonnes.

This exceeded the 4.8m tonnes recorded in 2019 as the airport saw the number of cargo flights increase 19.8 percent to an an all-time record of 82,935 flights with shipment on board.

Strong cargo volume reached a new monthly high in November, the airport noted, which carried into December despite flight reductions due to Omicron cases.

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In December, HKIA recorded 477,000 tonnes of cargo, inching up 8.6 percent over the same period last year. The growth in December volume was mainly attributed to 18 percent year-on-year growth in transshipments, whilst imports and exports both experienced 7 percent growth.

Overall cargo to and from Southeast Asia experienced the most significant increases in December.