A 185-kilometer-long port-to-airport oil pipeline, put into operation lately, has transported over 10 thousand tons of aviation petroleum from Tianjin Port to Beijing International Airport.

It is the first oil pipeline that has been built in China so far between a port and an airport.

As the starting point of the pipeline, the oil reserve area of Tianjin International Petroleum Storage and Transportation has been expanded to 64 thousand square meters. As one of major projects built with over 360 million yuan in Nanjiang of Tianjin, it can send imported high-level aviation petroleum to airports in Beijing and Tianjin at any time.

Lying south of the estuary of the Haihe River, the planned 20-square-kilometer Nanjiang port will prioritize its construction of deep-water berths for handling petroleum, coal and chemical products. The second largest of energy ports in China, it had over 3 million tons of oil products transported last year.