SPG gears up to advance high-quality container gro

March 8 marks the fifth anniversary of the important guidance given by Chinese President Xi Jinping on Shandong to accelerate constructing a world-class sea port. On this special day, the 2023 Port and Shipping Seminar on High-quality Container Development of Shandong Port Group (SPG) kicked off in Shanghai. Themed "promoting new port and shipping integration, sharing new opportunities and achieving new win-win development", the event was considered as part of SPG's efforts to discuss ways with renowned container liners to jointly bolster the high-quality container development.

Six representatives from container carriers including Yang Zhijian, chairman of COSCO SHIPPING LINE, Ludovic Renou, CEO of CMA CGM (CHINA) SHIPPING, Henry He, director of Maersk Asia-Pacific Ocean Customer Logistics, Yang Xianxiang, vice chairman, executive director and CEO of SITC International Holdings, Klaus Ku, general manager of PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (CHINA), and Lu Zongjun, chairman of Shanghai Zhong Gu Shipping Group, delivered speeches, respectively. They talked about new environment and fresh opportunities facing container transportation, exchanged views on reducing costs, increasing effectiveness, improving the quality of services and other areas, and expressed their confidence for SPG to achieve high-quality growth and expectations to further deepen collaboration.

During the event, SPG awarded several prizes such as "Gold Partner of Northeast Asia International Transshipment Hub with SPG", "Best Partner for RCEP Regional Development with SPG", "Best Growth Partner of Northeast Asia International Transshipment Hub with SPG" and "Best Partner with SPG for Domestic Trade Container Integration Development" to COSCO, Maersk, MSC, CMA CGM, Hapag-Lloyd and other container carriers.

Additionally, SPG Container Operation Center promoted its container development advantages and services measures and signed strategic cooperation agreements on sea-rail combined transportation with WHL, Sinotrans and RCL, respectively.

In his speech, SPG Chairman Huo Gaoyuan expressed sincere appreciation to all of the container liners for their strong support to SPG. Huo said that SPG will take the building of a world-class port cluster as an important part of its efforts to grow from a single port operator to a first-rate comprehensive supply chain service provider that relies on port, to a digitalized and smart port, to a green and low-carbon port and to an internationalized port. The overall aim is to pursue stronger port and shipping cooperation foundation, broader cooperation areas and more diversified business scenarios, and make utmost efforts to offer container liners with all-round good services, in a bid to jointly forge the port and shipping ecosystem and build a new example of port and shipping collaboration.

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