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In the News (Mon 28 May 12)

  
  Airport Technology - Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport (CAN/ZGGG), China
Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, formerly known as Canton Airport, is one of the major gateways to China; 'Baiyun' means 'white clouds' in Chinese.
The new Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport in Huadu District, with a total investment of Y19.8bn, was formally put into operation on 5 August 2004.
Baiyun airport is also at the centre of a number of construction projects, which are driving the local economy of Guangzhou and the surrounding region.
www.airport-technology.com /projects/guangzhou   (766 words)

  
 Welcome to Best Western Guangzhou Baiyun Hotel!
Baiyun Hotel was born with an air of “the highest building of China”to be the symbolizing construction of Guangzhou and admired by the common people.
It was a fashion for citizens to consume in Baiyun Hotel.
Baiyun Hotel generally upgraded its services and facilities, ascending to be a four-star hotel.
www.baiyun-hotel.com /english/e-profile-2.htm   (174 words)

  
  Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport (广州白云国际机场) is the main airport of Guangzhou, the capital of the province of Guangdong, People's Republic of China.
The new airport, built at a cost of 19.8 billion yuan, is 28 kilometers from downtown Guangzhou and nearly 5 times larger than its predecessor.
The airport is also referred to as "New Baiyun" to distinguish it from the previous version, but this is not a part of the official name.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Baiyun_International_Airport   (295 words)

  
 New Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport to open this week
The new Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport is situated north of Guangzhou - 23 kilometers away from the current city airport.
In a vast area spanning more than seven kilometers long by three kilometers wide, the new Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport is divided into three large zones: offices, terminal and aircraft maintenance and cargo facilities all situated in the south, center and north sections between the two runways.
China Southern Airlines’ new airport base is located in the south and north areas of the new complex, with its office complex and the air catering company in the south and cargo facility, aircraft maintenance, field services and 110KV high voltage power converting station in the north.
www.asiatraveltips.com /travelnews04/28-Airport.shtml   (1615 words)

  
 Logistics Management articleXml
Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport is to spend 420 million yuan on a third giant cargo terminal as the new airport's ambitious management looks to capture a greater share of the South China air freight market.
With work due to start in the next two months and finish in 2007, the 280,000 square metre terminal is expected to handle up to 800,000 tonnes of international cargo annually, while the existing two terminals will switch to domestic services.
Baiyun announced last month that it would fund the second-phase expansion through a 2.8 billion yuan convertible bond issue, part of which would be used to finance the terminal.
logisticsmgmt.com /index.asp?layout=articleXml&xmlId=291516848   (503 words)

  
 Baiyun need not be dark cloud for Chep Lap Kok
The opening of the new Baiyun (White Cloud) Airport in the northern Huadu District of Guangzhou has caused concerns in Hong Kong.
Baiyun Airport will excel over Hong Kong with its extensive internal network, but Hong Kong is much stronger in international network.
But with Baiyun catching up, our market share in the region will certainly fall from the current 70 per cent down to about 50 per cent in the coming decade.
www.chinadaily.com.cn /english/doc/2004-08/09/content_363258.htm   (840 words)

  
 Baiyun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
A China Xinjiang Airlines jet lands at Baiyun airport.
Aside from the southern fringe, which is undergoing intensive development and has long been the site of Guangzhou's international airport, the district is sparsely populated.
Historically a suburban district, Baiyun was incorporated as an urban district about 20 years ago.
www.macalester.edu /geography/courses/geog261/ljones/baiyun.html   (64 words)

  
 Hospitality Net - Industry News - Accor Awarded Hotel Management Contract For Guangzhou's New Airport
The Novotel Baiyun Airport Guangzhou is scheduled to open in October 2005.
Guangzhou New Baiyun International Airport is expected to rival Hong Kong's Chek Lap Kok, with a capacity to handle up to 60 million passengers a year by 2010.
Novotel Baiyun Airport Guangzhou is Accor's second major airport hotel signing in Asia this year, having already announced the management agreement for the exclusive hotel at Bangkok's new Suvarnabhumi Airport last month.
www.hospitalitynet.org /news/4022614.html   (530 words)

  
 Orient Aviation | 04.09 Baiyun takes off, with few hitches   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Guangzhou’s New Baiyun International Airport shrugged off a six-week delay caused by teething troubles, staging a mainly trouble-free transfer of operations from the old facility 17 kilometres away.
The new airport has already doubled capacities of the old Baiyun long under fire for its ageing facilities and inability to expand, an important factor for a city at the head of the booming Pearl River Delta manufacturing zone.
New Baiyun is seen as the first of three major Chinese hubs servicing the country’s three main airline groups with the Beijing and Shanghai bases of Air China and China Eastern Airlines to follow.
www.orientaviation.com /pages/back_issues/04_09/OA_V11N10_baiyun_hitches.htm   (399 words)

  
 China Guangzhou hotels and travel guide - BAIYUN SHAN
Just 7km north of downtown, Baiyun Shan (White Cloud Mountain) is close enough to central Guangzhou to reach by city bus, but open enough to leave all the city's noise and bustle behind.
Having found the plant, Cheng nibbled a leaf only to see the remainder vanish; full of remorse, he flung himself off the mountain but was caught by a stork and taken to heaven.
Baiyun Shan's entrance is a thirty-minute ride on bus #24 from the south side of Renmin Park, immediately northeast of the Jiefang Lu-Zhongshan Lu crossroads.
www.chinastage.com /travel-guide/guangzhou/baiyunshan.html   (244 words)

  
 The Standard - FedEx seals deal for Baiyun Airport hub - Top Stories
Under the agreement, the Guangzhou Baiyun Airport Authority would spend up to 1.5 billion yuan (HK$1.4 billion) to build a warehouse and a cargo runway for FedEx's use.
Baiyun Airport's freight throughput increased 16.2 per cent to 632,000 tonnes last year.
FedEx and the Guangzhou Baiyun Airport Authority have been in negotiations for more than a year and costs have always been the main bone of contention.
www.thestandard.com.hk /stdn/std/Front_Page/GG05Aa01.html   (644 words)

  
 Unisys and Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport
By international standards, Guangzhou Baiyun International now competes with other regional airports, enabling it to operate at the same high level as the new Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Beijing Airports.
Unisys CIIMS is integrating its information flow from systems around the airport, collating and storing data in a central airport database, and supplying information to the airport community.
Unisys also provided the airport with a business process model to ensure its smooth transformation from a predominantly domestic airport to a large-scale international hub airport, which allows it to efficiently compete with other major airports in the region, such as Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Beijing Airports.
www.unisys.com /transportation/clients/featured__case__studies/guangzhou__baiyun__international__airport.htm   (960 words)

  
 Baiyun airport to list 2.35b public offering [ SOUTHCN.COM ]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Guangzhou Baiyun Airport said Wednesday it would list its 2.35 billion yuan (US$284 million) initial public offering on the Shanghai stock exchange next week.
Baiyun, in a listing statement published in official securities newspapers, said it made a net profit of 71.7 million yuan for the first quarter of 2003, but gave no comparative figures.
Baiyun's planned airport in the wealthy southern province of Guangdong is expected to handle up to 25 million passengers a year by 2010 and could one day be the largest airport in South China -- bigger than neighboring Hong Kong's.
www.southcn.com /english/news/money/200304240412.htm   (216 words)

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