China News Service, March 28. The State Council Information Office held a press conference on the 28th on "Focusing on the 'Five Centers' and Accelerating the Construction of a Socialist Modern International Metropolis with World Influence". Hua Yuan, Member of the Standing Committee of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and Vice Mayor, was present at the meeting. Shanghai will use the development of high-end shipping services as a breakthrough to further strengthen its hub function, promote the digital, intelligent and green transformation of shipping, and make greater contributions to the implementation of major national strategies, it said.
Huayuan said that in 2020, Shanghai has basically established an international shipping center with aggregation of shipping resource elements, complete shipping service functions, excellent shipping market environment, and efficient shipping logistics services. Currently, Shanghai is moving towards the goal of comprehensively completing the construction of the city. Among them, the most important thing is to speed up the filling of shortcomings in the high-end shipping service industry and comprehensively improve the global allocation capabilities of shipping resources. Shanghai will use the development of high-end shipping service industry as a breakthrough to further strengthen its hub function, promote the digital, intelligent and green transformation of shipping, and make greater contributions to the implementation of major national strategies. Specifically, there are three aspects:
One is excellent service.
Vigorously develop high-end shipping services such as shipping insurance and maritime arbitration. In terms of shipping insurance, we must rely on the construction of an international reinsurance center to promote innovation in shipping insurance products and operating models, and enhance the global underwriting capabilities of shipping insurance. In terms of maritime arbitration, Shanghai will make good use of the Shanghai International Commercial Arbitration Center Regulations that were officially implemented at the end of last year, actively explore ad hoc arbitration, support overseas arbitration and dispute resolution institutions to establish business offices and conduct business in Shanghai, and encourage business entities to give priority to choosing Shanghai as a dispute resolution center. solution place.
The second is a strong hub.
Generally speaking, it is necessary to continue to improve the construction of the "three ports and one system" of seaports, airports, cruise ports and collection and distribution systems, and accelerate the advancement of a number of projects such as Xiaoyangshan North Operation Area, Oriental Hub Shanghai East Railway Station, and Pudong International Airport Phase 4. In addition to the construction of major projects, we must vigorously develop multimodal transport such as water-to-water transshipment and sea-rail combined transport, and actively cultivate and develop the cruise economy.
The third is to promote transformation.
There are mainly two aspects of transformation, the first is smart transformation, and the second is green transformation. In terms of smart transformation, the focus is to continue to improve the service platform of Shanghai International Container Transport based on blockchain technology and accelerate the creation of a demonstration platform for digital pilot projects in shipping trade. In terms of green transformation, the focus is to promote the construction of a green shipping corridor from Shanghai Port to Los Angeles Port, while accelerating the layout of green methanol, LNG and other clean fuel supply chains for ships. At the same time, the use of green transportation tools such as pure electric ships will also be further promoted.