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CHINA TO PROMOTE TIANJIN PORT AS AN INT'L SHIPPING HUB
August 6, 2020
China is working to develop Tianjin Port as an international shipping hub.
China’s National Development and Reform Commission and Ministry of Transport jointly issued guidelines recently to hasten the development of the port — the largest port in Northern China and the main maritime gateway to Beijing — to make it more prominent as an international shipping hub in north China by 2025.
By then, the port is looking to reach 560 million tonnes in cargo throughput and 22 million TEUs of container throughput. It also intends to undertake big strides in terms of transforming the port into an intelligent and green port.
Tianjin Port recorded 10.28 million TEUs of container volume and 251 million tonnes cargo throughput, in the first seven months of the year, expanding 4% over the same seven months period last year.
Part of the joint guideline includes plans to promote professional terminals construction, improve public shipping channel navigation capacity, promote port facility construction for megaships and undertake a multi-model transportation capacity improvement.
The port of Tianjin, located at the juncture of the Beijing-Tianjin city belt and the economic circle of the Bohai Rim Region, is the largest comprehensive port and an important foreign trade port in North China, serving 14 provinces, cities and autonomous regions.
It is currently a hub connecting Northeast Asia with Midwest Asia.
In 2019, the port was the seventh-largest port in terms of total cargo throughput and ranked the sixth in terms of total container throughput in China.
