China to build top-class superyacht port in Tianjin



4:02 AM Thu 14 Oct 2010 GMT
'Tianjin'
China plans to build a top-class yacht port in the northern city of Tianjin by the year-end, which will allow the country's super-rich to dock their luxury vessels at a port near the capital Beijing, local officials declared on Wednesday. The port will cover an area of 900,000 square meters in Tianjin's booming Binhai district and will have 750 berths to accommodate 300 ft luxury superyachts, Yang Shihao, a deputy head of Binhai district, said at a tourism festival on Wednesday. Five-star hotels, commercial streets, along with yacht manufacturing and repair bases, will also be set up in the port ...


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by Xinhua News Agency




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