The largest shipowner in the world

The reporter learned from the press conference of International Shipping Forum: At present, our country has established the line connection service network with more than 100 countries and regions to constantly improve the global leading degree of maritime connectivity. Our shipowners have a fleet size of 249.2 million gross tonnage from the gross tonnage to become the world's largest shipowners.

As an important part of the comprehensive transportation system, the shipping industry is an important support to serve the economic and social development and the national major strategy, and help realize the chinese-style modernization. At present, the proportion of waterway freight volume and freight turnover in the comprehensive transportation system is 16.9% and 53.5% respectively. About 95% of China's foreign trade is carried by maritime transport, which plays an important role in ensuring the safe and smooth transportation of key materials such as food, energy resources and international and domestic logistics supply chain.

According to the port cargo volume, our country's port cargo throughput and container throughput rank the first in the world for many years, and our country occupies 8 seats and 7 seats respectively in the top ten ports of global cargo and container throughput. In 2022, China's port cargo throughput of 15.685 billion tons of container throughput of 296 million TEU.

For many years, our inland river freight has been the world's first inland river navigation mileage, the world's first Yangtze River Trunk Line for many years to become the world's busiest inland river transport, the largest volume of gold waterway. In 2022, our inland river transportation finished 4.402 billion tons of freight, freight turnover of 1.9 trillion tons of km support services to ensure regional economic development capacity significantly increased.

See intelligent development our country has built 16 automated container terminals under construction more than 10 have been built and under-construction scale ranks first in the world. At present, with the publication of more than 5,700 kilometers of electronic channel maps nationwide, the trunk-and-branch connectivity of the Yangtze River system continues to promote the digitalization and intelligent transformation and development of channel Operation Monitoring, the joint operation of Cascade Ship Locks, and the improvement of the functions of service areas.