The Greater Bay Area: a market of millions
The Greater Bay Area (GBA) is a major city cluster in the Chinese Mainland for advanced manufacturing, cross-border e-commerce and other export activity. It is also home to 86 million consumers, creating strong demand for high-quality imported goods, particularly premium perishables.
Based at Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA), the aviation gateway for the wider GBA, Cathay Cargo offers extensive intermodal connectivity via air, land and sea, and connects this economically significant region to more than 100 destinations worldwide.
A connected megacity
Gateways to the Greater Bay Area
Cargo facilities in GBA
Guangzhou
- Three-times daily Cathay Pacific widebody passenger flights serve Guangzhou
- Flights offer access to full range of Cathay Cargo’s specialised shipment solutions for imports and exports
- Scheduled trucking service to and from Cathay Cargo Terminal at HKIA
- A temperature-controlled inspection facility is available, alongside a cool room and freezer room, offering a -15°C to +15°C temperature range
- Warehouse facilities extend to DG storage facilities and a strongroom for valuables
Macao and Zhuhai
- Cathay Cargo offers links to both centres with regular and reefer trucks for direct and seamless perishable imports using the expedited Air-Land Fresh Lane process
- The refrigerated customs inspection facility at Zhuhai enables cross-border spot checks and sampling of perishables to be conducted under temperature-controlled conditions to maintain freshness
- Macao has a staging point for truck transfers using the Air-Land Fresh Lane, for perishable shipments heading into the Macao SAR.
Hong Kong
- HKIA is the world’s busiest cargo airport with a throughput of 5 million tonnes in 2025, of which Cathay Cargo moved 1.7 million tonnes
- Cathay Cargo operates more than 90 return freighter flights a week to more than 40 destinations worldwide, complemented by belly capacity on the Cathay Group’s passenger flights serving more than 100 destinations
- HKIA is home to the Cathay Cargo Terminal, which covers 246,000m² over seven floors, with a modern Pharma Handling Centre, cold storage for perishables with a -25°C to +25°C range; dangerous goods storage for every DG class, and a strongroom for valuables
Dongguan
- Dongguan offers customers a sea mode for both import and export cargo and is seven hours’ sailing from a dedicated, airside pier at HKIA for the seamless transfer of screened, built-up, bonded cargo
- Cargo is carried on regularly scheduled vessels, with flexibility on timings to meet specific flights
- General cargo, e-commerce can be carried in either direction, while vessels offer reefer containers for pallet-intact perishable imports of fruit and chilled seafood imports
- Perishables can be inspected and collected from dedicated, bonded cold storage at Dongguan Port
- Dongguan Port is close to the HKIA Dongguan Logistics Park, which includes the Cathay Cargo Terminal Dongguan, offering upstream shipment screening, build-up for bonded and flight-ready cargo for e-commerce and general cargo exports, as well as import handling
Choose the intermodal solution that suits your cargo best
Learn moreAir-air
Fast, effective connections between Guangzhou, Hong Kong and the world
Learn moreAir-land
Versatile trucking solutions across the Greater Bay Area
Learn moreAir-sea
Built-up and bonded cargo solutions to and from Hong Kong International Airport and Dongguan
Intermodal cargo in action
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Learn moreOpen in new windowThe Cathay Fresh gateway to the Greater Bay Area
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