A big earthquake occured in Chengdu, Sichuan province, China 7.

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At around 14:30 pm on May 12 a big earthquake occured in Chengdu, Sichuan province, China.
As of 17:30 pm on May 16

1)	CTU airport is open. Many outbound flights were cancelled or delayed. Airlines start to accept flight booking from today but flight on time departure can not be guaranteed. Terminal resumed work as well, but still the operation for rescuer material takes the priority. CTU terminal system is recovered, but very slow, so still a big delay for inbound shipment operation.
2)	Airport customs is on normal work, but as the terminal is partly damaged, terminal customs is transferred to the airport Customs building. Airport system and terminal system are back to normal, so the declaration process is recovered as well. But as there are quite many cargoes detained in the past days, both terminal and airport customs are now taking time to clarify the data in the system and the operation speed is extremely slow for the time being.
3)	EPZ customs is back to normal. Same as airport, the system in EPZ is very slow right now to clarify the data of the cargo in past days.

2. Railway:
The scheduling instruction of railway ministry has been ordered: Stop all the freight trains and containers toward Chengdu. The special railway line is use to carry the succor materials. The east station of Chengdu is not collapsed. All general commercial goods deliver Chengdu in the stations of countrywide should be stopped. The cargo on road (start delivery before May 12) will still be delivered to Chengdu, but the routine and time will be controlled by railway ministry. Till 1pm of May 16th, through 82hours' rush to repair, Bao Cheng railway within the area of Sichan province has resume the normal operation.
3. Highway

date	route	via cities	current status	recover schedule	remark
	East Sichuan
2008/5/16	ChengYu Highway	ZiYang - NeiJiang - LongChang - YongChuan - Chongqin (eastbound to sea)	normal
2008/5/16	ChengNan Highway	ZhongJiang - SuiNing - NanChong	normal
2008/5/16	SuiYu Highway	SuiNing - TongLiang - BiShan - ChongQin	normal
2008/5/16	NeiYi Highway	NeiJiang - ZiGong - YiBing	normal
	South Sichuan
2008/5/16	ChengYa Highway	XinJin - PuJiang - Ya'an	normal
2008/5/16	ChengLe Highway	MeiShan - PengShan - LeShan	normal
	North Sichuan
2008/5/16	ChengMianGuang Highway	DeYang - MianYang - JiangYou - GuangYuan	traffic Control for periods	as per notice from Traffic Police	Since DeYang and GuangYuan close to the epicenter of the disaster, rescue will be the first priority.
2008/5/16	ChengPeng Highway	ChengDu - PengShi	traffic Control	as per notice from Traffic Police	PengZhou also greatly suffers from the disaster, just rescue vehicles are allowed to pass in the daytime.
2008/5/16	ChengGuan Highway	ChengDu - DuJiangYan	traffic Control	as per notice from Traffic Police	The vehicles are prohibited to pass through the highway, except for rescue vehicles.
	West Sichuan
2008/5/16	State Highway No.213	DuJiangYan - WenChuan - MaoXian - SongPan - Ruo'erGai	blocked	n/a	Ruined by the disaster, no entry route to or by WenChuan.

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