Tianjin Port “has lost significant logistical capability”

In a CCTV America broadcast, New York global studies and geography professor Dr Jean-Paul Rodrigue, said that it will take weeks to review the full impact of the recent Tianjin Port explosion in China.

But he did say that Tianjin’s terminals have not been impacted. However, he noted that a huge logistics area at the port – which mainly stores containers and automobiles – has been badly affected, meaning Tianjin “has lost significant logistical capability”.

He was also reported by Port Technology to have added that an early effect of the explosion is “companies removing their operations at Tianjin for the foreseeable future”.

Meanwhile, Lloyds Loading List reported that a lack of transparency had “contributed to the Tianjin disaster”, according to the UN’s special rapporteur on human rights and hazardous substances and wastes, Baskut Tuncak.

“Chinese authorities should re-evaluate laws for hazardous substances in the wake of tragic explosion,” he added.