Tianjin’s container terminal has big plans

The terminal also plans to tap into China’s numerous river ports linking to the world through Pacific shipping routes to the east, as well as its central western regions along the economic belt.
A staff member at Tianjin Port, Li Yan, said over 20,000 standard containers could be handled in the six container terminals.
“At present the port can handle 20 cargo ships and there are plans to increase the number of vessels in the future,” he said.
Tianjin is a major seaport and is an important hub in the national transportation system.
It is an important foreign trade port in the north of China, and a key node in the modern transport network in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei area, as well as a link between northeast Asia and middle and central Asia.
Tianjin port has established shipping and trade relations with over 500 ports from over 180 countries and regions in the world.
Li said the port not only shipped goods to many countries, but also imported 1,200 cars a week from Europe. 
Tianjin has also become a major aviation industry centre. Since 2008, Airbus A320 aircraft have been produced in the province by Sino-European economic and technological cooperation.
Up to now, 200 aircraft have been produced with about 16 per cent of the world’s A320s in service coming from Tianjin.
Airbus China’s president recently expressed confidence in Tianjin’s development into the world’s third largest centre for the aviation industry.
Tianjin is one of the first Chinese cities to have contact with modern Western civilisations, after the city was designated a trading port in 1860.
Premier Li Keqiang expressed hope that it would become China’s most important northern port city when he visited a few years ago.
He said Tianjin should continue to strive to be leader in a new round of reforms and opening up, and take proactive steps to explore ways to promote investment and facilitate services and trade.