On May 23, the seminar on port industry development trends and hot issues and the release of the annual report of the global port development report (2022) was successfully held, inviting nearly 400 industry colleagues through online Tencent meetings and live video broadcasts. The conference was hosted by Shanghai International Shipping Institute, and was chaired by Zhao Nan, Deputy Secretary-General of SISI. Zhang Jieshu, Secretary-General of SISI delivered a welcome speech.

Xie Wenqing, Deputy Director of the Port Development Research Department, and Wu Jiazhang, analyst, made a sharing report on the Global Port Development Report. They pointed out that the global epidemic has been effectively controlled in 2022, but the global economic growth has weakened, and the growth rate of trade volume and port throughput has narrowed as governments successively ended large-scale fiscal and tax stimulus policies, coupled with geopolitical conflicts, international trade sanctions, cross-border supply chain disruptions and other international events. At the same time, high inflation in Europe and the United States continues to suppress the vitality of the consumer market, the container shipping trade situation is not optimistic, and global terminal operators actively carry out diversified business to reduce investment risks. Looking forward to 2023, the global port production situation may tend to moderate recovery.

The global port development hot topic discussion session specially invited Zou Junshan, Chief Representative of Rotterdam Port Authority in China, Ding Songbing, General Manager of Strategic Research Department of SIPG Group, Jiang Ming, Director of Strategic Research Department of Shandong Port Group, and Jiang Minggao, Deputy General Manager of Strategic Innovation Department of China Merchants Port, to attend the meeting, sharing their experiences and forecasts on the port production situation and development trend in 2023.

With the enthusiastic participation of all the participants, this seminar and exchange meeting was a complete success.