The Port of Tianjin and government of Baotou, an Inner Mongolian city, have agreed to cooperate on one-stop customs clearance for intermodal transport, Xinhua reported.
The two sides will jointly build a facility in Baotou, called the "Baotou inland port", to offer one-stop services including customs clearance and sea-rail or sea-truck intermodal for cargo that needs to transship via Tianjin. The two also agreed to set up a company to manage the facility.
The operation consists of an international rail container handling facility with a 6,600-square-metre warehouse and a 30,000-square-metre stacking yard.
Statistics show the volume of containers from Baotou and its neighbouring region surpassed 70,000 TEU in 2006 and strong growth is expected. Seventy per cent of this cargo was transshipped through Tianjin.
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