# China Southern Cargo (IATA CZ)

> China Southern Cargo is the freight arm of China's China Southern group, booked under the IATA designator CZ and based in Guangzhou. Commercial responsibility lies with China Southern Air Logistics Company Limited, a subsidiary of China Southern Air Holding Company. The freighters are flown by the separate airline China Southern Airlines Cargo Co., Ltd.; belly capacity comes from the China Southern Airlines passenger fleet. For forwarders, China Southern Cargo is above all access to the Pearl River and Yangtze deltas: 19 Boeing 777F freighters (as of July 2025) link Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Shanghai Pudong with North America, Europe and Oceania. Because the selling and the operating company are separate entities, it pays to check the issuing carrier on the air waybill.

## Quick facts

| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Legal | China Southern Air Logistics Company Limited |
| IATA | `CZ` |
| Country | CN |
| Group | China Southern Air Holding Company (中国南方航空集团有限公司) |
| Tracking | https://cargo.csair.com/pages/cargotrackingNew.do |

## Overview

China Southern Cargo is the freight arm of China's China Southern group and appears to forwarders as 南方航空物流股份有限公司 (China Southern Air Logistics Company Limited, "南航物流"). The company was founded in June 2018 and has since consolidated the logistics business of China Southern Air Holding Company. It is the commercial and handling entity; the freighters are operated under the separate airline China Southern Airlines Cargo Co., Ltd., which also holds the traffic rights for scheduled all-cargo services to the United States. At China Southern Cargo, the party that sells the shipment and the party that flies it are therefore not the same legal entity — which matters to forwarders in liability and contractual questions.

According to its own statements, China Southern Cargo operates 19 Boeing 777F freighters (as of July 2025) and runs more than 80 scheduled international freighter flights per week. Added to this is the belly capacity of the China Southern Airlines passenger fleet, which mainly densifies the offering within China and across Asia. The route network rests on the hubs Guangzhou and Shenzhen in the Pearl River Delta and Shanghai Pudong; freighter rotations run from there to North America (Anchorage, Chicago, Los Angeles) and Europe (Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London Stansted). On 4 July 2025 the company opened Guangzhou–Auckland–Sydney, its first freighter service with fifth freedom rights.

On the ground, China Southern Cargo runs 16 of its own cargo terminals in 13 Chinese cities, including Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Beijing and Urumqi, with a combined warehouse area of more than 300,000 square metres and a handling capacity of over 2.3 million tonnes per year.

The product range is structured into CZ Speed, CZ Special (outsize, dangerous goods, live animals, perishables, pharma, valuables, vehicles), CZ Exclusive (key accounts, charter, mail), CZ Standard, CZ Transfer and CZ Courier. Bookings are made under the IATA designator CZ. The ICAO code and the AWB prefix could not be confirmed beyond doubt from primary sources and are deliberately not shown here.

## Hubs

- CAN
- PVG
- SZX

## Fleet

- Boeing 777F × 19

- Boeing 777-8F × 5

- Boeing 777F × 2

## Sources

- [China Southern Air Logistics – Unternehmensprofil](https://cargo.csair.com/pages/CargoIntroduction.do)

- [China Southern Air Logistics – Produktübersicht](https://cargo.csair.com/pages/productSeries.do)

- [China Southern Air Holding – Medienmitteilung Guangzhou–Auckland–Sydney](https://www.csairgroup.cn/en/mediacenter/news_releases/2025081411415075662/3816ce513b474bdaa7e1c80c128961ad/index.html)

- [US Department of Transportation – Docket DOT-OST-2021-0162](https://downloads.regulations.gov/DOT-OST-2021-0162-0003/attachment_1.pdf)

- [China Southern Air Holding – Geschäftsfeld Logistik](https://www.csairgroup.cn/cn/cpyfw2/hy17/hywz43/358001/0/index.html)

- [Air Cargo News – China Southern orders Boeing 777-8F](https://www.aircargonews.net/airlines/2026/06/china-southern-becomes-first-chinese-carrier-to-order-boeing-777-8f/)

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