On December 14, 2011, the “Seminar on New Trends and orders in Container Shipping Market” was successfully held in Shanghai International Shipping Institute (SISI). Guests present at the seminar included Vice President and Secretary-General Zhang Shouguo of China Shipowners’ Association, Deputy Division Director Li Chenxi of Shanghai Urban Construction and Communications Commission, Assistant  to Division Chief Jing Yan of Shanghai Municipal Transport and Port Authority, Vice President Ma Shuo of World Maritime University, as well as industry experts from China Shipping Group, China Shipping Container Lines, COSCO Container Lines and Shanghai Maritime University etc. SISI’s Secretary-General Zhen Hong, Deputy Secretary-General Li Gang and Zhang Jieshu, Deputy Director Jin Jiachen of Shipping Center Construction Research Office attended the seminar. Mr. Li Gang presided over the seminar.

At the seminar, experts discussed around the intensified competition in container transport market and many new challenges faced by shipping enterprises in the context of continuous downturn in global economy. Mr. Zhang Shouguo proposed to enhance the service capacity, anti-risk and competitiveness of shipping companies to cope with the new trends of global economic development, thus effectively maintaining a healthy competition order of the container shipping market.