Port of Tianjin

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Port of Tianjin 天津港
Logo of the Port of Tianjin
Location
Country	People's Republic of China
Location	Tianjin
Coordinates	38°58'36"N 117°47'07"E
Details
Operated by	Tianjin Port Group Ltd
Owned by	Tianjin Port Holdings Company Limited
Type of harbor	Deepwater Seaport/Riverport
Land area	107 sq km [1]
Size	260 sq Km
Available berths	140 (2008); Production Berths: 101 (2010)
Employees	20,000 (2008)
Chairman	Yu Rumin
UN/LOCODE	CNTXG (formerly CNTSN/CNTGU)
World Port Index Number	60190
Nautical Charts	94363/0 (NGA/NIMA); 2653/4 （Admiralty); 11773/4(Chinese)
Statistics
Annual cargo tonnage	413 M ton (2010)
Annual container volume	10.1M TEU (2010)
Passenger traffic	60,000 cruiser passengers (2010)
Annual revenue	14.6 billion yuan （2008）[2]
Net income	803 million yuan (2010) [3]
Website	http://www.ptacn.com/

Coordinates: 38°58′36″N 117°47′07″E / 38.97667°N 117.78528°E / 38.97667; 117.78528

The Port of Tianjin (Tianjin Gang, simplified 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 port is often identified as Tianjin Xingang (simplified Chinese: 天津新港; pinyin: tiānjīn xīngǎng; Wade–Giles: T'ientsin Hsinkang; literally "Tianjin New Port"), which strictly speaking refers only to its seaport area. It is located on the western shore of the Bohai Bay, in the estuary of the Haihe River, 170 km south east of Beijing and 60 km east of Tianjin city. It is the largest man-made port in mainland China^[4], and one of the largest in the world.
Tianjin Port is the fourth largest port by throughput tonnage in the planet, and third in China, behind the merged Port of Ningbo-Zhoushan and the Port of Shanghai. It is also eleventh in the world and sixth in China in container throughput^[5]: 2010 cargo throughput was 413 million tons, and 10.1M TEU of containers.^[6] The port trades with more than 800 ports in 180 countries and territories around the world. It is served by over 115 regular container lines.^[7] run by 60 liner companies, including all the top 20 liners. In 2009 total quay shoreline was over 21.5 km with 101 production berths. Capacity is increasing at a high rate, with 550-600Mt of throughput capacity expected by 2015.
The port is part of the Binhai New Area district of Tianjin Municipality, the main special economic zone of Northern China, and directly east of the Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area. The Port of Tianjin is at the core of the ambitious development program of the Binhai New Area, and change occurs at such an accelerated pace that information can become outdated in months.