eNorth(30 March from Hong Kong): In "2001 Tianjin Week In hong Kong", the journalists get to know that three transportation departments--railway, harbor and airport--all will extend their infrastructure to prepare for the future prosperity of Tianjin modern logistics

From this year, Tianjin Railway Council will build the Fourth railway line between Beijin and Tianjin to improve the transportation capacity in these two cities. After the finish of this line, the present situation of passenger trains and cargo trains running in one line will be completely changed. The designed handling capacity in 2005 is 64 pairs passenger trains and 88 pairs cargo trains; 100 pairs passenger trains and 73 pairs cargo trains in 2010; 128 pairs passenger trains and 66 pairs cargo trains in 2015. In 2015, the handling capacity of Tianjin railway station will raise from present 59 million tons to 120 million tons. The complement of the Fourth line will further raise the speed of passenger train up to 210 Km/h. People at that time can enjoy the high-frequent, high-speed and short-time city-transportation network. The fourth line will also increase the passing ability of Tianjin harbor's land entry so as to satisfy 100-million-ton-level big harbor's demand on railway transportation.

Being the first All-container dock, Tianjin Harbor has been improving the application of network technology and EDI Electronic Data Transferring System. With the helps of Tianjin customhouse, Tianjin Harbor has realized the information-sharing with the shipping company, cargo transportation company, dock stevedoring company and rear stack storage. At present, the administrative office of the harbor is constructing the deep water channel, lots of deep water berths, storage facilities and processing equipment; building up bulk cargo logistics center in South Xinjiang and container logistics center in North Xinjiang; cooperating with customhouse to set up "Tianjin Harbor Container Checking Center"; setting up agencies in western provinces like Xinjiang, Sichuan, Shanxi and Shanxi. Two large projections: one is to establish and reform 5 deep-water bulk berths and 11 deep-water container berths from the extending 150,000-ton deep-water channel, south harbor district bulk berth and north harbor district container berth; two is to enlarge the navigation condition of Haihe river lower reach from the foundation of Haihe river 10,000-ton shipping sluice.

To the airport, Tianjin government has decided to improve the street infrastructure. The plan is to optimize and connect the express ways and railways around the airport, harbor and urban area. This implementation will play a key role in the turning from Tianjin International Airport into the Air Cargo-Transportation Hub in North China. To accomplish the integration of Beijing Airport and Tianjin Airport, a former railway line between these two airports will be repaired to open a new passage. Besides these, the Airport present runway and low-speed runway will be extended and recovered. The runway will be extended to be 3,600; another runway will be built in a proper time. The level will be raised to be 4E. Meanwhile, the construction of communication equipment and information network will realize the modernization of Tianjin Airport logistics.