High-quality development·Port exploration | "Hard-core" new advantages on the routes of major northern ports
Tianjin, May 29 - Sunlight spreads across the sea, and a giant ship rides on the waves. In the early morning of the 29th, the Ocean Alliance US East Line AWE2 "COSCO Fortune" ship arrived at the Tianjin Port Terminal. This is another giant ship entering the port after Tianjin Port opened a new US East route not long ago.
On May 29, the ship "COSCO Fortune" berthed at the Pacific International Container Terminal of Tianjin Port to load cargo. hair
Tianjin Port has opened three new routes in the past month: a direct route to the east coast of South America on May 6, a route to the east coast of the United States on May 15, and a new direct route to Central America on May 16.
“The direct container route to the east coast of the United States has opened up a new path for Tianjin’s export of traditional goods such as bicycles, ceramics, and furniture,” said Wu Fei, deputy general manager of the Dual-Brand Capacity and Route Network Planning Center of COSCO Shipping Container Lines.
In recent years, goods such as food and medicine, chemical raw materials, plastic products, machinery and equipment, and auto parts from Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and surrounding areas have been exported to the Americas. At the same time, frozen beef, mineral products, fruits and other commodities from the Americas are also entering the Chinese market at an accelerated pace.
The opening of three new routes has shortened the freight time from the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region to the Americas. The opening of the new route to the east coast of the United States has shortened the delivery time from the original 45 days for transit to 38 days. The direct shipping route to Central America has shortened the time by about 1/5 compared with ordinary routes. The new direct route to the east coast of South America has shortened the delivery time from Tianjin to The delivery time in Brazil has been shortened from the original 54 days for transit to 40 days.
Yu Cheng, deputy manager of the Operations Management Department of Tianjin Port Pacific International Container Terminal Co., Ltd., said that the new route has enhanced the competitiveness of export commodities from the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region in the American market, and will subsequently attract e-commerce goods and overseas warehouse goods to increase their share of exports in Tianjin. , to better serve the export-oriented economic development of Tianjin Port, and fully demonstrate the "hard core" advantages of the port.
On May 29, trucks transport containers at the Pacific International Container Terminal in Tianjin Port. hair
New sea routes have been opened, and land-bound trains have also grown steadily. Data show that from January to April this year, Tianjin Customs supervised the shipment of 236 Tianjin China-Europe and Central Asia trains, with 255,300 TEUs, and the freight volume increased by 10.2% year-on-year.
"The goods include cars, bicycles, daily necessities, etc., including local goods from the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, as well as products shipped from Japan, South Korea, and southern my country." said Li Zhiwu, director of the business development department of Tianjin China Railway United International Container Co., Ltd.
On May 29, at the China Railway Tianjin Container Center Station, a gantry crane was performing loading operations. hair
Taking advantage of the coordinated development of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei and the joint construction of the “Belt and Road”, and relying on the core advantages of port strategic resources, Tianjin is accelerating the construction of the northern international shipping core area. Zou Luan, director of the Comprehensive Business Department of Tianjin Port and Shipping Bureau, said that Tianjin Port has access to more than 500 ports in more than 180 countries and regions around the world. From January to April 2024, Tianjin Port completed cargo throughput of 188 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 3.5%, and container throughput of 7.3981 million TEUs, a year-on-year increase of 6.2%, setting a new record high for the same period in history, driving the further expansion of Tianjin's foreign trade scale.
Tianjin Port is realizing "cargo transportation around the world": cars from Beijing are shipped to Southeast Asia, trains filled with imported ore are heading to northwest China, daily necessities produced in Japan and South Korea are sent to Mongolia after a short stop, and tomato paste from Xinjiang is "shipped out to sea" from here. "Heading to Europe...
Gather resources based on ports, develop industries based on resources, and develop cities based on industries. Shan Zefeng, the mayor of Tianjin Binhai New Area, said that as the main port-friendly industry, Binhai New Area has gradually built a marine industry development pattern featuring offshore oil and gas, petrochemicals, marine equipment manufacturing, etc., with seawater desalination, high-end equipment, etc. The representative marine emerging industries have accelerated their development, and the scale of the marine economy has exceeded 330 billion yuan, making it one of the first batch of national marine economic innovation and development demonstration cities.
At the same time, relying on its port advantages, Dongjiang Comprehensive Bonded Zone has vigorously developed financial leasing businesses such as aircraft, ships, and offshore equipment in recent years. As the world's second largest aircraft leasing agglomeration and the country's largest leased aircraft asset trading center, the Dongjiang Comprehensive Bonded Zone has delivered more than 2,000 aircraft for leasing, and the leasing of aircraft, ships and offshore products accounts for 80% of the country's total.
Luo Xunjie, vice president of Tianjin Port Group, said that in the future, Tianjin Port Group will actively leverage the "hard core" advantages and hub role of the port, continue to explore and improve the radiation energy level of sea and land, and serve major national strategies such as the coordinated development of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei.
