Reporter on September 12 from the 2023 North Bund International Shipping Forum press conference was informed that China's shipowners have a fleet size of 249.2 million gross tons, from the gross tonnage of the world's largest shipowning country.

　　The shipping industry is an important guarantee for the development of international trade. At present, shipping has undertaken about 95% of China's foreign trade traffic, and plays an important role in guaranteeing the transportation of imported food, energy resources and other key materials, and the security and stability of the international and domestic logistics supply chain. 2022 China's port cargo throughput reached 15.685 billion tons, container throughput of 296 million TEUs.

　　Gao Haiyun, second-level inspector of the Water Transportation Bureau of the Ministry of Transportation, said that China's port cargo throughput and container throughput for many years ranked first in the world, the world's port throughput, container throughput ranked in the top ten ports, China accounted for 8 seats and 7 seats. Inland waterway freight volume for many consecutive years ranked first in the world, inland waterway navigation mileage is the world's first, the Yangtze River trunk line for many consecutive years to become the world's busiest inland waterway transportation, the largest capacity of the golden waterway.

　　Wang Weiren, Deputy Secretary General of Shanghai Municipal Government, introduced that in order to strengthen the international shipping industry exchanges and cooperation, to promote the high quality and sustainable development of the shipping industry, and to better play the role of shipping as a bridge in global trade and humanistic exchanges, the Ministry of Transport and the Shanghai Municipal People's Government co-sponsored the 2023 Bei Wai Bund International Shipping Forum, which will be held from September 22nd to 24th in Shanghai. The theme of the Forum is "Openness, Cooperation and Innovation - Building a New Pattern of Global Shipping".