On March 28, 2024 COSCO SHIPPING Specialized Carriers Global Partner Conference took place in Guangzhou. With the theme of “Navigated by Smarter Feature, Share a Greener Future”, the conference aims to collaborate with global partners in effectively addressing the new wave of industrial transformation, exploring future trends in the shipping logistics industry, fostering new quality productive forces, and accelerating digitalization, sustainability, and low-carbon transition. 

At the morning session, Executive Vice President of COSCO SHIPPING Mr. Lin Ji stressed in his speech that the world is currently witnessing a period of great changes unseen in a century. As a foundational and supportive industry for global economic prosperity, shipping logistics must follow future trends, take initiative, and demonstrate its responsibility towards the times. He called on global partners to uphold the new banner of mutual benefit and win-win cooperation, fostering a new pattern of collaborative product innovation, taking concerted efforts to stabilize supply chains, creating a business ecosystem featuring resource co-construction, and expanding the application of green science and technology to embark on a shared journey of success.

In his keynote address, President of COSCO SHIPPING Specialized Mr. Huang Nan highlighted the company’s accomplishments over the past year in enhancing full-chain collaboration, hastening the digital, intelligent, green, and low-carbon transformation, and propelling the shipping industry’s sustainable development. He expressed anticipation for further deepening collaboration with partners along the global industrial chain, advancing digital, intelligent, and green transformation and development, jointly building an innovative partner ecosystem, and shaping a new shipping and logistics ecosystem.

COSCO SHIPPING Specialized, in collaboration with its partners, proposed the Green and Low-Carbon Development Initiative, a collective endeavor aimed at fostering green and low-carbon development. The initiative advocates for the establishment of a sustainable shipping system by all stakeholders, as well as a collaborative effort to drive the green transformation across the industrial chain.

In sub-forums, participants engaged in focused discussions on various critical supply chains, including pulp, new energy/advanced manufacturing/bulk commodities, commodity vehicles, international offshore, asphalt, and green shipping. These in-depth exchanges aimed to foster collaborative dialogue among domestic and international agents, as well as upstream and downstream partners, who convened to deliberate on advancing the high-quality growth of the specialized shipping market to ensure the global supply chain stability and fluidity.

Amidst the forum, CRRC Tangshan Co., Ltd., COSCO SHIPPING Specialized Carriers Co., Ltd., and Hebei Port Group Co., Ltd. cemented their collaboration by signing a tripartite cooperation framework agreement. Guangzhou Yuanhai Automobile Shipping Co., Ltd. and Beijing Foton International Trade Co., Ltd. Also celebrated the commitment of their Cooperation Agreement with a signing ceremony.