Port of Tianjin
| Port of Tianjin 天津港 | |
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Logo of the Port of Tianjin | |
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| Location | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Location | Tianjin |
| Coordinates | 38°58′33″N 117°47′15″E / 38.97583°N 117.78750°E |
| UN/LOCODE | CNTXG or CNTSN (formerly CNTJP/CNTGU) |
| Details | |
| Opened | 1860 (Port of Tanggu); October 17, 1952 (Tianjin Xingang) |
| Operated by | Tianjin Port Group Ltd |
| Owned by | Tianjin State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission |
| Type of harbour | Deep-water Seaport/Riverport |
| Land area | 121 km2 |
| Size | 260 km2 (470 km2 total jurisdictional area) |
| No. of berths | 217; Production Berths: 140 (2010) |
| Employees | 20,000 (2008) |
| Chairman | Yu Rumin |
| World Port Index Number | 60190 |
| Nautical Charts | 94363/0 (NGA/NIMA); 2653/4 (Admiralty); 11773/4(Chinese) |
| Statistics | |
| Annual cargo tonnage | 500 million tonnes (2013) |
| Annual container volume | 13 million TEU (2013) |
| Value of cargo | 197.249 billion USD (2011) |
| Passenger traffic | 110,000 cruiser passengers (2012) |
| Annual revenue | 21.5 billion RMB (2011) |
| Net income | 1.678 billion RMB (2011) |
| Website http://www.ptacn.com | |
The Port of Tianjin (Tianjin Gang, Chinese: 天津港; pinyin: tiānjīn gǎng), formerly known as the Port of Tanggu, is the largest port in Northern China and the main maritime gateway to Beijing. The name "Tianjin Xingang" (Chinese: 天津新港; pinyin: tiānjīn xīngǎng; lit. 'Tianjin New Port'), which strictly refers to the main seaport area, is sometimes used to refer to the whole port as well.
The port is on the western shore of the Bohai Bay, centered on the estuary of the Haihe River, 170 km southeast of Beijing and 60 km east of Tianjin city. It is the largest man-made port in mainland China and one of the largest in the world. It covers 121 square kilometers of land surface, with over 31.9 kilometers of quay shoreline and 151 production berths at the end of 2010.
Tianjin Port handled 500 million tonnes of cargo and 13 million TEU of containers in 2013, making it the world's fourth largest port by throughput tonnage and the ninth in container throughput. The port trades with more than 600 ports in 180 countries and territories around the world. It is served by over 115 regular container lines run by 60 liner companies, including all the top 20 liners. Expansion through the turn of the twenty-first century was enormous, going from 30 million tonnes of cargo and 490,000 TEU in 1993 to well beyond 400 million tonnes and 10 million TEU in 2012. 550–600 Mt of throughput capacity was expected by 2015. The large volume of port traffic and high urban population makes Tianjin a large-port megacity, the largest type of port-city in the world.
The port is part of the Binhai New Area district of Tianjin Municipality, the main special economic zone of Northern China; it lies directly east of the TEDA. The Port of Tianjin is at the core of the ambitious development program of the BNA; as part of that plan, the port aims to become the primary logistics and shipping hub of Northern China.
On 12 August 2015, at least two explosions within 30 seconds of each other occurred at a container storage station at the Port of Tianjin in the Binhai New Area of Tianjin, China. The cause of the explosions was not immediately known, but initial reports pointed to an industrial accident. Chinese state media said that at least the initial blast was from unknown hazardous materials in shipping containers at a plant warehouse owned by Ruihai Logistics, a firm specializing in handling hazardous materials.