Tianjin port container throughput up 2.4 pc

The Port of Tianjin had handled 8.7 million TEU in 2009, up 2.4 per cent year on year, Logistics Week reported.

At the meantime, the port's cumulative cargo tonnage exceeded 380 million tonnes, growing 6.7 per cent year on year. The port also recorded increases of more than five per cent in its domestic and foreign trade cargo volume during this period.
Port of Tianjin has managed to overcome the difficulties brought by the world financial crisis and succeeded in achieving increase at a time when decrease prevailed, said the report.

In 2009, the port spent CNY12.8 billion (US$1.87 billion) on port construction projects. The new container terminal, Euroasia International Container Terminal, has been finished, bringing extra capacity of 1.7 million TEU to the port. Two new bulk berths has start trial operation and will add 11 million tonnes' capacity to the port after full completion in 2010. A new crude oil terminal has also been built with a capacity 20 million tonnes.

Source: Transport Weekly