Last year, the foreign trade throughput of coastal ports across the country reached 4.96 billion tons, a year-on-year increase of 9.6% – China’s foreign trade shipping volume accounts for more than 30% of the world.

Shipping is the lifeline of global trade in goods. At the 2024 Maritime Silk Road Port Cooperation Forum (hereinafter referred to as the “Maritime Silk Road Forum”) held in Ningbo, Zhejiang from June 26 to 28, the “China Port Operation Analysis Report (2024)” released by the Planning and Research Institute of the Ministry of Transport showed that China’s foreign trade shipping volume accounted for 30.1% of the global shipping volume in 2023, an increase of 2.2 percentage points from the previous year, highlighting China’s status as a major foreign trade country.