Tianjin port to revitalize coal business by railways

Tianjin port, a pivotal coal-transferring hub at Bohai Bay in northern China, is about to rejuvenate its coal business through construction of coal shipment dedicated railway lines this year, Liang Yongcen, president of Tianjin Port (Group) Co., Ltd, noted recently.

According to Liang, Tianjin port plans to finish the construction of the second railway line within the port this year to connect wharves, bulk cargo yards and outside receiving points.

''We built the first railway within the port last year after diesel truck transportation was banned,'' Liang stated.

''As the nation highlighted the significance in shifting from the polluting truck transport to more efficient and secured railway shipment, we must change our minds and get rid of our heavy reliance on diesel trucks,'' he added.

Tianjin port has for long shouldered the responsibility to store and transfer coal from main producing areas such as Shanxi and Inner Mongolia to energy-guzzling regions with annual coal shipment throughput reaching around 100 million tonnes, data showed.

''The bulk of coal that arrived at Tianjin port was usually transported via trucks and only a few was by railway. In the peak time in earlier days, we always witnessed hundreds of heavy-load trucks shuttling in and out of the port each day,'' Liang said.

''Since April in 2017, Tianjin port has refused to accept any coal shipped by diesel trucks to the port, which helped reduce the number of diesel trucks by more than two million per annum,'' he added.

However, Liang noted that the ban of coal trucks has hugely disturbed the business patterns at Tianjin port in that the unloading and deliveries of iron ore were also seriously affected without truck flows.

Source:sxcoal

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