NORTHERN Hebei province is working to attain a container throughput of 800,000 TEU with hopes to reach a million TEU by the end of this year for its provincial ports, Xinhua reports.

To meet its target, the province will roll out a toll fee reduction and exemption scheme for container trucks and subsidies for container. Besides, it will also give more support to containerising traditional bulk cargo.

Hebei is also speeding up the construction of container shipping facilities and make sure its No 22 berth's bulk-to-container conversion project be completed and No 26, No 27 container berths start construction by the end of the year.

Ports in Hebei province inaugurated three new container shipping lines in July respectively from Jingtang port to Jinzhou port, from Jingtang port to Huanghua port and from Huanghua port to Tianjin port, bringing the province's the total of domestic and foreign trade shipping lines to 28, Xinhua reports.

In August, there are still three other container shipping lanes to be launched in Hebei, helping shippers to further lower logistics cost.