Huge blasts at Chinese port kill scores

At least 44 people werekilled and more than 500injured when two major explosions rocked the port city of Tianjin
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BEIJING MUNICIPALITY Beijing city HEBEI CHINA HEBEI PROVINCE TIANJIN PROVINCE HEBEI PROVINCE Tianjin city Binhai New Area BOHAI BAY

40km 25 miles

Aug 12, 23:30 local time: Blasts at warehouse storing “dangerous and chemical goods” devastate vast areas of Tianjin port – gateway to industrial belt of northern China

Magnitude of second blast equivalent to 21 tonnes of TNT
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TOP WORLD CONTAINER PORTS (Volume 2013, Million TEU*)

1. Shanghai, China 33.6
2. Singapore 32.6
3. Shenzhen, China 23.3
4. Hong Kong, China 22.3
5. Busan, South Korea 17.7
6. Ningbo-Zhoushan, China 17.3
7. Qingdao, China 15.5
8. Guangzhou, China 15.3
9. Jebel Ali, UAE 13.6
10. Tianjin, China 13.0

*TEU = Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit (container capacity)
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Buildings and vehicles within 2km radius destroyed
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Source: Worldshipping.org Picture: Getty Images
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