Dongjiang Free Trade Port Zone, located in Binhai New Area of Tianjin, is a bonded port zone with the most complete functions, the most preferential policies, and the highest openness founded in 2006 under the approval of the State Council.
Covering an area of 10 square kilometers, the zone is composed of a 5.6-sq-km operation area, a 4.4-sq-km logistics and processing area and the service zone.
The terminal operation area contains 17 specialized container berths, 8 general cargo berths and a sea-rail reloading center, with six container berths already put into operation, whose total designed annual capacity is 4 million TEUs.
The zone is the largest comprehensive port in northern China. In 2014, the total volume of freight handled of the port reached 540 million tons, ranking fourth of all the ports around the world. Its container throughput was 14 million TEUs.