The customs clearance supervision mode of "Bay Port Link" multimodal transport in Guigang City, Guangxi was officially launched, marking that the inland river port of Xijiang has entered a new stage of "one single system" through the whole process of intermodal transport. This model realizes "one declaration, one order to the end" through the "single window" of international trade, breaks the traditional barriers to customs clearance, greatly reduces customs clearance time and logistics costs, effectively connects coastal ports and inland hinterland, optimizes the port business environment, and injects new impetus into the development of foreign trade in the Xijiang River Basin.

Shanghai Mayor Gong Zheng met with the head of the Baltic International Shipping Association, and the two sides exchanged views on deepening cooperation. Gong Zheng said that Shanghai is focusing on improving the resource allocation capacity of the international shipping center, developing high-end shipping service industry, and promoting the digital, intelligent and green transformation of shipping. He hopes that the association will help Shanghai improve its shipping service level, launch more "Shanghai contracts" and "Shanghai rules", and support Shanghai's participation in international shipping governance. The association affirmed Shanghai's status as an international shipping center and expressed that it will continue to support its construction and jointly promote the digitalization of aviation trade and the development of green shipping.

Shenzhen Port Logistics Group and Hainan Logistics Group signed a strategic cooperation agreement to jointly promote the high-quality development of Qiongshen logistics integration. The two sides will open up cross-border logistics channels to reduce regional costs, build a new energy vehicle supply chain to the sea, and connect the western land and sea new channels. This cooperation is an important measure for Shenzhen Port Group to implement the construction of the "five major channels" and seize the opportunity of Hainan Free Trade Port, aiming to improve the layout of the national logistics network and serve the new development pattern.

Shenzhen Port Logistics Group and Hainan Provincial Logistics Group have signed a strategic cooperation agreement to jointly promote high-quality integrated logistics development between Hainan and Shenzhen. The two sides will integrate their respective advantages in port and shipping resources, logistics network and operational experience, focus on opening up the Qiongshen cross-border logistics channel to reduce regional costs, build an international supply chain for new energy vehicles to go to sea, and promote the deep connection between the logistics network and the new land and sea channel in the west. This cooperation aims to empower the industrial upgrading of the two places and help build a new development pattern.

The Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Li Jiachao announced that he is formulating the first "Hong Kong Five-Year Plan" at full speed, aiming to actively connect with the national "15th Five-Year Plan" and provide clear guidance for Hong Kong's social, economic and people's livelihood development. The plan emphasizes taking advantage of Hong Kong's unique advantages of "relying on the motherland and connecting with the world", giving full play to its role as a domestic and international double-cycle "super contact" and "super value-added person", deepening Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area cooperation, expanding global economic and trade networks, and promoting the leapfrog development of emerging industries, turning national opportunities into practical results of high-quality development and improving people's livelihood.

As the vice chairman of the Asia-Pacific region of the World Customs Organization, Hong Kong Customs hosted the first large-scale regional conference on smart customs from March 11 to 13. The conference brought together more than 200 representatives from around the world to discuss the four core pillars of intelligent data-driven and single-window trade, and to showcase innovative application cases such as artificial intelligence and blockchain. The conference aims to harmonize digital standards, strengthen public-private cooperation, and promote the digital transformation of customs operations to build a more efficient, secure and interconnected global trading system.

"Seeking Truth" magazine published an important article by General Secretary Xi Jinping, "Promoting the High-Quality Development of the Marine Economy." The article emphasizes that to promote Chinese-style modernization, we must efficiently develop and utilize the ocean and embark on a road to the sea with Chinese characteristics. The article systematically expounds the direction and path of promoting the high-quality development of the marine economy from the aspects of macro thinking and specific work, including five major ideas of focusing on innovation-driven, land and sea co-ordination, industrial renewal, harmony between people and sea and win-win cooperation, and deploys six key tasks of strengthening top-level design, enhancing marine science and technology capabilities, strengthening marine industry, optimizing bay planning, protecting marine ecology and participating in global governance.

The US-Israeli military strikes caused Iran to block the Strait of Hormuz, triggering a violent shock in international oil prices, which once approached US $120 per barrel. Although measures such as the release of strategic reserves by various countries have temporarily eased market panic, the continued blockade of the Strait, as a necessary channel for nearly 1/5 of the world's seaborne oil, will pose a serious threat to the global economy. The article analyzes the reasons why the current situation has not yet evolved into a full-scale oil crisis, and points out that the future market trend is highly dependent on the development of war and the status of navigation in the strait, highlighting the urgency of traditional energy security and the adjustment of the global energy pattern.

The transportation department of Sichuan Province focuses on reducing the logistics cost of the whole society and promotes the transformation of the logistics system from "passive adaptation" to "active adaptation. Key initiatives include: making up for the short board of facilities with the adaptation of supply and demand as the guide; Promoting the "triple play" of channel network, logistics network and digital network to break the isolated island of data; Adding multimodal transport routes to optimize the transport structure; And seize the opportunity of "artificial intelligence transportation" to develop new intelligent productivity such as low-altitude logistics and automatic driving.

From January to February this year, 60 China-Europe trains were opened at the eastern Guangzhou road-rail intermodal transport hub (Zengcheng West Station), an increase of 25 percent over the same period last year, achieving a "good start" in the New year ". As an important national logistics hub in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the hub has opened a number of routes to Europe, Central Asia and ASEAN. Customs and other departments through the linkage platform, coordination of resources, to ensure customs clearance and other measures, to support the local manufacturing industry and e-commerce platform to use the train to accelerate the sea, to promote the hub to "supply chain hub" transformation and upgrading.

In order to serve the construction of inland open hub, Pacific Property & Casualty Insurance Chongqing Branch innovatively builds an insurance one-stop platform serving 'Chongqing New Euro' and the new land and sea corridor in the west. The platform provides comprehensive risk protection for channel logistics by establishing an overseas claims service network covering 15 countries and regions, optimizing the claims process and applying digital technology, and establishing a three-level advance payment plan. At present, it has provided more than 645 billion yuan of risk protection for the China-Europe train and the new western land-sea channel, significantly improving the efficiency and reliability of insurance services for cross-border trade.

U.S. Trade Representative Greer announced on March 11 that he would launch a 301 investigation into 16 trading partners, including China, the European Union, Mexico, Vietnam, India and Japan. The investigation originated from Section 301 of the US Trade Act of 1974, which authorizes the US Trade Representative to investigate the so-called "unreasonable or unfair trade practices" of other countries and may recommend that the president impose unilateral sanctions. The move reflects the unilateralist tendencies of US trade policy and may have an impact on global trade relations.

This paper reports that during the spring ploughing period, nearly 20000 tons of imported potash fertilizer were transported to the Central Plains via Zhenjiang Port in Jiangsu Province through the new mode of "water-water combined transport. Thanks to the connection of the waterway of the river diversion project, the transportation route has been optimized, the transportation distance has been shortened by about 400 kilometers, the time has been reduced by nearly a week, and the comprehensive logistics cost has dropped from 158 yuan per ton to about 110-115 yuan, a drop of more than 35%. This model realizes the "one-ship direct" chemical fertilizer from the Yangtze River port to the Huaihe River Basin, effectively improves the efficiency and stability of agricultural transportation, and provides strong support for ensuring spring farming.

On March 9, the Shandong port Qingdao port opened an exclusive direct route to Iloilo, Philippines, and the maiden voyage was completed by the "Haifeng Hainan" ship. The route does not require transit, which can effectively reduce logistics costs and improve transportation efficiency for at least one day, connecting Qingdao, Iloilo, Cebu and other core ports to accurately match the trade needs of China and the Philippines. Qingdao Port ensures the smooth first voyage through efficient operations, demonstrates its service capabilities as an international shipping hub in Northeast Asia, and injects new momentum into deepening China-Philippines economic and trade cooperation.

On March 6, 2025, the "COSCO SHIPPING Lily" ship built by Yangzhou COSCO SHIPPING Heavy Industries for COSCO SHIPPING was officially named and unveiled, marking the completion of the first batch of 4 16000TEU methanol dual-fuel series container ships. The ship has a total length of 366 meters and a container capacity of 16136 TEUs. It is equipped with green power systems such as domestic WinGD methanol dual-fuel main engine. Compared with traditional energy ships, it can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by about 120000 tons per year, and EEDI is more than 50% better than the baseline. The ship is also equipped with an intelligent control system to realize the intelligent management of the whole operation process. It is expected to be put into the South China-Southwest US e-commerce express route, injecting new impetus into the green shipping corridor.