Han Xin Shipping said that the opening of a new route in Tianjin Port is to take a fancy to the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei mature industry and broad market, as well as Tianjin Port's service and efficiency advantages.
A few days ago, the "modern Copenhagen" ship successfully berthed at Tianjin port, marking the new Korean shipping (HMM) direct European routes in Tianjin port officially opened.
The new route starts from Tianjin Port, along the "21st Century Maritime Silk Road", passing through China's largest trading partner ASEAN countries, connecting Spain's Algeciras, the Netherlands Rotterdam, Germany's Hamburg, Belgium's Antwerp and other major European ports.
According to reports, the route by Han Xin shipping into 12 24000TEU super large container ship weekly shift operation, the ship type is currently the world's largest.
The route will further weave Tianjin Port foreign trade ocean trunk network, build Tianjin Port connected to European countries of the maritime transport channel, for the hinterland enterprises export mechanical and electrical equipment, people's livelihood materials and other goods, to provide more convenient and efficient shipping services.
At the same time, enhance Tianjin's shipping resources agglomeration effect and regional radiation-driven role, enhance the service industry chain, supply chain capacity, in order to promote Tianjin's northern international shipping hub construction, service to build a new development pattern to inject momentum.
Han Xin Shipping China Chairman Li Zhuming said that China's economy has helped the global economic recovery to give the majority of enterprises confidence. The opening of new routes in Tianjin Port is to take a fancy to the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei mature industry and broad market, as well as Tianjin Port's service And efficiency advantages.
Li Zhuming further introduced that after the opening of the new route, the reduction of cargo transit links, so that China's production of furniture, machinery, auto parts and other goods faster to reach Europe, the overall navigation time compressed by nearly 15%, for customers to save logistics costs.
Tianjin Port Group stated that the next step will continue to expand the port and shipping ecosystem, meet the shipping needs of customers in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and the "Three Norths" region, help foreign trade companies develop overseas markets, and strive to add ocean and near-ocean direct routes, and continue to smooth the north-south shipping channel.
It is understood that in the first two months of this year, the total value of imports and exports at Tianjin Port reached 309.26 billion billion yuan, an increase of 19.1 percent over the same period last year. Among them, imports and exports to countries along the "Belt and Road" were 107.22 billion yuan, an increase of 38.8 percent; imports and exports to RCEP trading partners were 101.16 billion yuan, an increase of 20.3 percent; and imports and exports to the EU were 47.46 billion yuan.
In the country's top ten ports, the first two months of Tianjin Port's import and export growth rate ranked first.
Source: China Shipping Weekly