The Tianjin Port, in the Binhai New Area of North China’s port city Tianjin, is growing as an international cargo hub. It is striving to be a world-class port with an annual cargo volume of 500 million tons.

File photo taken on August 24, 2012 shows freighters with full loads at Tianjin Port. [Photo/Xinhua]

As the world's fourth-largest container port and China's largest artificial deep-water harbor, Tianjin Port handled 477 million tons of cargo in 2012 and 12.3 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU), which were sent to or from more than 500 ports across the world.

A fully loaded freighter steers out of Tianjin Port on August 24, 2012. [Photo/Xinhua]

Now, it is accelerating its pace in business expansion, such as international transit shipment, distribution, procurement and trade, as well as shipping finance and leasing.