World's First Zero-Carbon Port Eyes Southeast Asia Expansion, Targets 3.2 Mln TEUs In 2025
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From Kisho Kumari Sucedaram
TIANJIN, June 24 (Bernama) -- China's Tianjin Port, recognised as the world's first zero-carbon port, is setting its sights on expanding cargo routes to Southeast Asia as it targets to handle 3.2 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) in 2025.
The strategic move comes as part of the port's broader vision to boost regional connectivity and green trade under the Belt and Road Initiative.
The port has built on its impressive growth from 2.83 million TEUs in 2023 to 23.29 million TEUs last year.
Tianjin Port Operations Management manager Feng Miao said trade volumes to Southeast Asia continue to rise in tandem with the region's growing maritime corridor and container shipping network.
'We now have many direct routes to Bangladesh and Southeast Asia. One of the vessels here is currently en route to the region,' he told Bernama during a site visit to Tianjin Port recently.
However, Feng did not disclosed the official figures on the current shipping size to the region.
Tianjin Port was certified as zero carbon by the China Classification Society in 2022, marking a global first for the maritime logistics industry.
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