Yangtze River Shipping strives to ensure the smooth transportation of key materials and the safety of ferry transportation. Rain, snow and freezing disasters have caused large-scale disruptions in railway and road transportation in Hubei, Hunan and other places.

The Yangtze Maritime Safety Administration broke the "early morning sailing" rule for the steam ferry and allowed the Shashi steam ferry in Jingzhou to operate 24 hours a day on February 5. The Three Gorges Hub had passed through 294,300 tons of key material such as coal, petroleum, grain, cotton and edible oil.