Tag: Tianjin

Tianjin Port Group and Huawei will deepen cooperation to build a digital twin of the port, making it more automated and intelligent.

The Port of Tianjin, Northern China, now features three wind turbines of over 100 meters high, intended for clean power generation, marking the completion of 15MW wind power project phase II of the Green Intelligent Energy Demonstration Program Section C.

Amid COVID-19 outbreak, Chinese health officials informed that two cold-chain storage workers in the port of Tianjin were tested coronavirus positive, as the country shifts focus to contaminated imports after a number of outbreaks linked to frozen food.

Tianjin Port and the technology group Huawei, shake their hands and inked a strategic cooperation agreement on World Intelligence Congress in order to jointly develop a green and smart port, as Xinhua news agency reported.

According to Reuters, Sinopec Corp's refinery and petrochemical complex in Tianjin will shut down for two months, starting in early May, for a regular revamp with the aim to cut its crude throughput by about 2 million tonnes this year.

The new regulations regarding enhanced supervision and controls on ship pollution came into force on 1st of May 2018 in Tianjin, Northern China's largest port. This set of regulations apply to pollution caused by vessels, as well as their relevant operations in the territory of Tianjin Port. It also includes navigation, berthing as well as operation. 

After an investigation that lasted two months, China’s NDRC informed that the ports of Shanghai, Qingdao, Tianjin and Ningbo Zhoushan must now reduce their container handling fees between 10 and 20 percent, from the beginning of 2018.

Industry and institutional stakeholders gathered for ICHCA International’s Packaged Dangerous Goods Seminar in London, this March, agreed that the Tianjin port disaster must spur a collective effort to address misdeclaration and other key risks dogging the safe shipment of containerised dangerous goods.

The UK P&I Club has announced that the number of attempted thefts from Vessels in the anchorage of Tianjin Port in China has increased significantly.

China has released its official report on the investigation of the massive chemical explosions at the port of Tianjin on August 2015 which reveals that more than 11,300 tons of hazardous goods were illegally stored at the warehouse where explosions happened and identifies 123 people, including five officials at ministerial level, responsible.