On July 24, 2022, as the "Mediterranean Aida 2" completed more than 700 container loading and unloading tasks and slowly left Tianjin Port Eurasia International Container Terminal, Tianjin Port's "Mediterranean Southeast Asia Route" officially launched its maiden voyage. Since July 2022, Tianjin Port has opened the third Belt and Road and RCEP (Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership) new route.

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"Mediterranean Southeast Asia Route" is the first Southeast Asia route opened by MSC in Tianjin Port in recent years, focusing on serving RCEP member countries such as Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, etc. Container ships operate on a weekly basis.

Hu Songyang, Sales Manager of Tianjin Branch of Lisheng Mediterranean Shipping (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., said that the newly launched route can directly sail from Tianjin Port to Southeast Asian ports, which can meet the current demand for import and export capacity in Southeast Asia in the northern market, and provide more opportunities for enterprises to ship their goods. Strong timeliness and space guarantee.

In addition to this route, Tianjin Port also opened the "CMA CGM/Taiping/Honghai Southeast Asia Route" on July 6, 2022, and the "SITC Southeast Asia Route" on July 14, 2022. "Continuous opening of new routes has realized daily container liner exchanges between Tianjin Port and major ports in Southeast Asia, and shortened the sea transportation time from Tianjin to Southeast Asian countries to at least 9 days." Route Development Manager of the Business Department of Tianjin Port Co., Ltd. Liu Xin said. Key words:

According to reports, since 2022, Tianjin Port Group, in the face of adverse factors such as the repeated global new crown pneumonia epidemic, has created more routes and express channels to meet market demand, and successfully opened 7 foreign trade routes such as Australia and Southeast Asia. The continuous growth of foreign trade container throughput. In the first half of the year, Tianjin Port Group completed a container throughput of 10.511 million TEUs, a year-on-year increase of 2.1%, which was the best level in history.Editor/XuNing