Tianjin Port is accelerating establishment of the logistics system in Central China. The Zhengzhou marketing center is in place to promote construction of dry ports in Puyang and the southern part of Henan province and integrated development of the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road. Moreover, the logistics system's construction has been quickened.

Tianjin Port intends to be an obstacle-free modern multimodal transport channel. To date, it has opened bidirectional international trains from Moscow to Minsk, and expanded service to eastern Europe, connecting Russia, Mongolia, Central Asia and European countries, and countries along the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road. The Tianjin Port China-Mongolia-Russia economic corridor multi-modal transport project has been selected as a China demonstration project.

The port focuses on the rising of Central China and China Western Development. It has established five market centers and 25 dry ports in Beijing, Hebei, Shanxi, Henan, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, Ningxia Hui and Xinjiang Uygur autonomous regions. It has also established ten sea-railway combined transportation channels and completed a modern logistics system in inland areas. Tianjin Port has also established relationships with shipping alliances.

In the first ten months of 2017, its cargo throughput reached 12.8 million TEU (twenty-foot equivalent unit), an increase of 5.6 percent over 2016; its Ro-ro automotive throughout was 880 thousand, 36 percent more than that of 2016; the freight volume by land transit was 50 thousand TEU, up 32.8 percent from 2016.

Tianjin Port is contributing to implementation of the regional coordinated development strategy, promoting a new open structure and accelerating construction of maritime commercial power.

source:http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/m/tianjin2012/2017-11/15/content_34572065.htm