Hong Kong: Home to the largest freight airport in the world
Hong Kong International Airport is the planet’s biggest freight airport. The air freight hub of Chek Lap Kok on the island of the same name handles some 4.51 million tonnes of cargo every year,some three times the figure registered when it opened almost 20 years ago.
It is the site of 411,000 aircraft movements every year, and about 230,000 of these are for air freight transportation (figure from 2015), putting it just ahead of Memphis International Airport in the USA.