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澳門空運暨物流業協會 Associação de Despachantes de carga Aérea (logÍstica) de Macau

Macau Air Freight Forwarding (Logistics) Association

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INTRODUCTION

MAFFA was founded on 12th April 1996 with members from the Airfreight Forwarders in Macau.

The Association which is self-reliance, a Non-profit association has been acknowledged by the

public when the operation of Macau International Airport came into operation in December 1995.

Even since the development, Macau being part of China which we enjoy a self-antimony with

the one country two system governance, Macau enjoyed a vast opportunity, with traffic on both

passengers and as well as airfreight movements. Since 1997, with the collaboration of our

members, the growth of cargo handled in the Macau International Airport has been steadily

increased and reckoned to be one of the world fastest growing airports. Tonnage has been

encouraging during those days where Macau Airport also broke the record on handling 220,000

metric tons in 2004 during the pandemic of SARS where most of the cargoes were diverted from

Hong Kong Airport. However, with Mainland China opening-up, cargo movement have been

moving directly into mainland China by-passing Macau. Hence, cargo volume decline year on

year, which most airfreight forwarders are facing a uphill task to keep up with the trend of

evolving demographic movement, such affecting cargo movement in general.

Name: Macau Air freight Forwarding (Logistics) Associations (MAFFA)

Address: Rue de Xangai, No. 175, Edif, A.C.M,19 Andar A, B Macau

Telephone: (853) 28786208 Fax: (853) 2878 6820

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.maffa.org.mo

mailto:[email protected]



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MISSION

To enhance the relationship in the industry among fellow forwarders, uplift the level of

professionalism and safeguard the interest of our fellow members.

To connect with worldwide freight association, exchange of industry practice experience,

promoting with development of our freight industry with logistics and to enhance the economical

growth of Macau.

To bridge the communications between the Government with our industry, coordinate the

relationship and interest of all parties’ concern.

MAFFA MEMBERS

Any company engaging in freight forwarding business and logistics activities are welcome to

become a member of the association, provided that the company observes the rules and

regulations of the association.

The Association has 2 Committees, viz the Board of Executives Directors and Supervisory

Board. With 7 Committee members in the Executive Board and 3 Committee Members in the

Supervisory Board.



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HONG KONG – ZHUHAI - MACAU Bridge is into its last phase of development. Both Hong Kong

and Macau freight forwarders in general are looking forward on the completion of this mega project,

working toward expanding our business horizon which hope to capture a bigger market share in the

entire region. Which overseas industries player should consider such a route for cargoes movement

between Guangxi, China Via Macau as well.

Especially for Macau, is one of the most uniquely city which is part of China that progressed in her

economy mainly on the entertainment sector. However, Logistics and Freight Forwarding industry is

NOT categorized as one of the industrial index that is part of the annual economy figures.

Macau container port infrastructure unlike what Hong Kong has developed, this is due to space

constraint, which in turn highly depending Hong Kong for Ocean Freight shipments which are mainly

by feeder between these two cities.

Hong Kong International Airport is up to her bottleneck with maximum capacity that handles in total

more than 4.7 million tons of Airfreight in Year 2017. Aircraft landing slots has been an issue. With

the next 10 years of Hong Kong Airport development, the government and airport authorities of Hong

Kong decide to build a 3rd runway to accommodate their future capacities. With that, Macau

International Airport should take on such great opportunity with full advantages of such situation

where, we could see major shifts of landings of air freighter again which some percentage to be

spilled over to Macau International Airport.

What are the current trends in today’s Hong Kong – Cross Border -Mainland freight movements.

How could Macau freight forwarders take advantage of getting part of the share from such

movement of freight between Mainland China and Macau? In general, by looking at the geography

position of Macau, we may not be competing head-on with our neighbour Hong Kong on freight

movement. Macau is another city in this 1 country 2 systems as well, which Macau forwarders are

heading further South of China to pursue more businesses there.

The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area which is widely spread, with 2nd and 3rd tier

inner cities in the mainland, we have seen economy index growing rapidly. With central government

announcement incentives with more funding for the economy of Shenzhen, we could see more

benefit for the entire region. As more vibrancy generating on the development of Shenzhen, which in

turn benefit a much more opportunity for the entire region.

One may see Macau as an entertainment city which is part of China. Freight figures for all modes of

transportation are not the main statistic index report by the Macau government administration.

Traditional freight forwarding practices has since been shifted towards (Meetings, Incentives,

Conferencing, Exhibitions) in short “MICE” freight since after the booming hotel industry. Tourism in

these sectors changed the entire Macau environment. Ever since, Macau has been successful which

event operations has been in great demand. Please see table below: -



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Meetings Incentives Conference Exhibition : MICE

Number of Events in Macau 2015 2016 2017

Meeting and Conference 1163 1195 1285

Exhibitions 78 788 869

Incentives 22 26 45

Number of Participants/ Attendees in Macau 2015 2016 2017

Meeting and Conference 117, 851 175,852 244,912

Exhibitions 2,393,461 1,500324 1,608,075

Incentives 4,780 45,351 47,820

Number of Floor Area used (Meter Square) 2015 2016 2017

Meeting and Conference 442,721 781,570 1,197,941

Exhibitions 395,510 309,900 301,604

Incentives 15,864 338,049 341, 685

Macau, also being the transshipment port for Mainland China. Majority for both Import and

Export shipments landed in Macau goes into Zhuhai, China via trucks, thus transfer to other

inner cities. Increasing demand for airfreight has been the issue which Macau requires to have

bigger aircrafts with larger payload for export cargoes. At this juncture, Air Macau, and other

national and low-cost carriers land in Macau. In recent months, more inquiries by chartered

company to land in Macau as export volume of e-commerce goods from Mainland China is on

the rise. Particularly, mostly cargoes are now coming from western cities Guangxi as well as

further north of Guangdong. There are increasing demand of shipment to move via Macau due

to her competitiveness with other airports with this region. Please see Table below: -



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Cross Border Vehicular Traffic

CHECKPOINTS 2015 2016 2017

FROM CHECKPOINT: BORDER GATE

INBOUND HEAVY TRUCK 28,258 29,262 28,445

OUTBOUND HEAVY TRUCK 167 164 174

FROM CHECKPOINT: COTAI

INBOUND HEAVY TRUCK 527,569 567,486 622,315

OUTBOUND HEAVY TRUCK 184,928 173,770 164,210

Tonnage From Year 1995 to Year 2017

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MACAU AIRPORT TONNAGE (KGS)

Macau Airport Tonnage (kgs)



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Macau International Airport, which we could see in recent months, the growing demand for

airfreight is steadily on the rise. Statistics has shown that between 2017 and 2018, based on

month on month, there is at least an average of 10% growth, which we could see more airfreight

via Macau. Please table below: -

Statistic On Aircargo Movement at Macau International Airport

2017 2016

Month Arrivals Transits Departures Total (Kgs) Arrivals Transits Departures Total (kgs) Growth %

JAN 438,731 474,146 1,684,132 2,597,009 554,182 600,300 1,601,473 2,755,955 -6.12%

FEB 402,919 461,233 1,155,150 2,019,302 407,686 265,577 897,548 1,570,811 22.21%

MAR 484,700 687,902 1,943,372 3,115,974 508,125 660,694 1,669,262 2,838,081 8.92%

APR 540,046 721,508 2,028,122 3,289,676 627,220 540,434 1,582,550 2,750,204 16.40%

MAY 514,910 652,511 2,004,493 3,171,914 479,986 555,101 1,626,920 2,662,007 16.08%

JUN 550,752 715,600 1,817,555 3,137,907 493,268 557,665 1,489,290 2,540,223 17.63%

JUL 525,430 644,587 1,736,121 2,906,138 514,953 586,854 1,408,826 2,510,633 13.61%

AUG 598,772 598,314 1,859,665 3,056,751 569,933 466,175 1,464,129 2,500,237 18.21%

SEP 710,013 611,829 1,887,642 3,209,484 534,863 537,017 1,602,313 2,674,193 16.68%

OCT 604,778 559,980 1,887,026 3,051,784 525,872 698,813 1,878,910 3,103,595 -1.70%

NOV 714,204 685,509 2,766,915 4,166,628 617,544 653,889 2,050,078 3,321,511 20.28%

DEC 558,036 685,721 2,532,689 3,776,446 592,244 719,448 2,354,060 3,665,752 2.93%

TOTAL 6,643,291 7,498,840 23,302,882 37,499,013 6,425,876 6,841,967 19,625,359 32,893,202 12.16%

2017 2018

Month Arrivals Transits Departures Total(kgs) Arrivals Transit Departure Total(kgs) Growth %

JAN 438,731 474,146 1,684,132 2,597,009 589,426 638,076 2,228,149 3,455,651 33.06%

FEB 402,919 461,233 1,155,150 2,019,302 546,062 341,275 1,061,286 1,948,623 -3.50%

MAR 484,700 687,902 1,943,372 3,115,974 545,952 596,378 2,255,688 3,398,018 9.05%

APR 540,046 721,508 2,028,122 3,289,676 538,996 663,275 2,658,329 3,860,600 17.36%

MAY 514,910 652,511 2,004,493 3,171,914 504,088 659,287 2,277,626 3,441,001 8.48%

JUN 550,752 715,600 1,817,555 3,137,907 615,628 526,234 1,702,410 2,844,272 -9.36%

JUL 525,430 644,587 1,736,121 2,906,138

AUG 598,772 598,314 1,859,665 3,056,751

SEP 710,013 611,829 1,887,642 3,209,484

OCT 604,778 559,980 1,887,026 3,051,784

NOV 714,204 685,509 2,766,915 4,166,628

DEC 558,036 685,721 2,532,689 3,776,446

TOTAL 6,643,291 7,498,840 23,302,882 37,499,013 3,340,152 3,424,525 12,183,488 18,948,165 9.33%



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Aircargo Movement at Macau Macau International Airport 2016

Aircargo Movement At Macau International Airport 2017

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AIRCARGO MOVEMENT (2016)

Arrivals Transits Departures Total in Kgs

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Aircargo Movement At Macau International Airport 2018

Commercial Flight Movements in Macau International Airport

From Origin 2015 2016 2017 From Destination 2015 2016 2017

Mainland China 9905 9468 9872 Mainland China 9904 9470 9872

Taiwan 6243 6728 6241 Taiwan 6246 6728 6240

Cambodia 85 109 422 Cambodia 84 108 420

Philippines 1004 959 1060 Philippines 999 960 1058

Japan 608 906 900 Japan 607 903 901

Palau 138 132 231 Palau 137 133 232

Malaysia 901 700 705 Malaysia 899 705 723

South Korea 1209 1670 2744 South Korea 1207 1671 2741

Singapore 548 517 497 Singapore 548 513 499

Thailand 3344 3620 2718 Thailand 3349 3626 2721

Vietnam 1623 1614 1464 Vietnam 1622 1614 1464

OTHERS 484 386 561 OTHERS 488 377 556

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Commercial Flights Movement from Origin

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Gross Weight of Air Cargo Based on Tonnage

From Origin 2015 2016 2017 From Destination 2015 2016 2017

Mainland China 300 414 305 Mainland China 1863 2001 1999

Taiwan 3561 3593 3648 Taiwan 7116 8995 10593

Cambodia -- -- -- Cambodia -- -- --

Philippines 853 830 876 Philippines 578 954 930

Japan 281 423 553 Japan 366 1057 1601

Palau -- -- -- Palau -- -- --

Malaysia 203 125 152 Malaysia 1049 1230 1642

Republic of Korea 140 191 279 Republic of Korea 618 498 655

Singapore 24 34 50 Singapore 799 673 623

Thailand 810 651 598 Thailand 2272 2107 1995

Vietnam 12 10 22 Vietnam 1617 1986 2987

OTHERS 226 156 160 OTHERS -- 121 332

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Transit Air Cargo Via Macau International Airport

FROM DESTINATION

2015 2016 2017

Mainland China 4037 4170 4806

Taiwan 1486 1783 1411

Cambodia -- -- --

Philippines 9 5 5

Japan 56 93 115

Palau -- -- --

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Republic of Korea 229 195 364

Singapore -- 3 0

Thailand 416 387 592

Vietnam 96 202 199

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Cross-Border

Macau and Hong Kong share similar trade movement for cargoes to Mainland China. Thus,

Cross-border transportation has been on going for decades.

With changes of packaging for e-commerce goods, these have certainly made general freight

forwarding tougher as days goes by. Last Mile Fulfillment for these past 5 years, has been the

talking point and air freight forwarders played an important role in the industry. Online sellers

and buyers have shifted the industries players in SE Asia competing from weeks starting from

point to point of delivery to less than 10 days within our region which surpassed Postal Service

deliveries.

E-commerce exports from China to the rest of the world breaking records year after year

especially when 11th Nov annually where TianMao launches (Singles’ Day). Sales just like

Amazon Black Friday which is 23rd Nov for 2018. Online sellers/retailers will have their goods

shipped out either via Guangzhou, Macau and Hong Kong or further north Shanghai as well.

Cross-border movement loads especially to Hong Kong and Macau will reach to her maximum,

warehouses and staging facilities in Hong Kong Terminal and Macau Airport facilities as well.

Trucks loads of e-commerce goods bound for exports from China formed queues at Cross-

Border customs for much longer hour. Airfreight payload from China to Europe, USA and SE

Asia are on high demand. Macau also experience the same with space are full for these sectors

via Taipei and low-cost carrier to other cities within ASEAN countries.

I supposed most of us reckoned, China has been constructing new highways and roads. One

very good example, the Hongkong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge, a 10 year project will see a major shift

of economy of our area. Goods from these triangular cities will engaged enormous changes and

the playing field will be of much opportunity for all industry players. We strongly believe, more

promotion of airfreight to and from small cities in Mainland China should and will make full use

of such facilities with cargo transit time shorten.

Cross-border warehouse within Macau and Zhuhai which is under the control by both Customs

Authority which we normally know as FTZ, goods are mostly imported from overseas into

Macau, and after all customs formalities, goods are send out through Zhuhai to other part of

China. With Online shopping widespread, there are many Mainland Chinese online shoppers

purchased from overseas, which importation make easy by Chinese Customs to lower duties

and taxes should one individual purchased no less that RMB20,000 per annum. That leads to

many retailers of FMCG stage or have their SKU ready in both Hong Kong and Macau.



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Airport Ground Handling Agent.

Menzies the Ground Handling Agent for both Passenger and Cargo Terminals in Macau International

Airport. Even since heighten in security, Cargo Terminal in Macau Airport already imposes 100% on X-ray

screening for all export shipments even before ICAO policy direction required phasing-out not approved

consignee by the appropriate authority for aviation security by 30 June 2021. With the Stringent

regulations implemented by airport security SEMAC, enhancement on preventive measures, regular audit

to meet security standards by ICAO Policy. Menzies has been working closely with Civil Aviation of

Macau (CAM) whom the government authority in managing the entire airport operations. Security

screening has put in place with varies size of X-ray machines to cater for shipper’s needs. Menizes has

since prepared for the next phase as mentioned to perform individual carton screening.

MAFFA ACTIVITIES

MAFFA members regularly engage meetings with Macau Customs Authority to update on the

changes of regulations on movement of cargoes. Members also interact with Associations of

the Macau Small and Medium Enterprises to discuss on the latest trend in handling of freight for

the industries as well.

Organising tours to our neighbouring cities association(s) in Mainland China within our region to

better understand on the logistical supply chain in their area and movement of freight from one

city to another.

In early Jan 2017, MAFFA with relevant government department of Macau and Zhuhai

organized a visit to the HKZM bridge.

Map of HongKong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge



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Group Photos on HongKong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge.

Freight forwarder has always been the frontline in enhancement of technologies by changing

behavior of consumers’ demand. Renown well established freight forwarders must change with

time on the requirement by such factors. Technology has shifted the playing field of traditional

freight forwarding just merely 5 years. Tracking of shipments, be it by air or ocean freight, all

one needs to download an APP from a portal and monitoring a shipment simply by just a touch

on an icon from a mobile device.

With Air freight, the word already tells all (A.I.R.) Always In a Rush. The speed of movement

from one point to another has made one realized that Air Freight Forwarding is still the most

effective and efficient way of moving cargo.

MAFFA Report 2018.

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