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On March 11, the Central Asia Express (Wuhan) opened a special liquid bag container train for the first time, loaded with high-quality edible sunflower seed oil from Central Asia and arrived at Wuhan Xianglushan Station. This marks the first time that Wuhan has adopted the liquid bag container transportation mode to import edible oil, realized the innovation of transportation mode, and promoted the "Central Asia-Xianglu Mountain" return train to enter the normal operation. Liquid bag technology fills edible oil in environmentally friendly liquid bags, and realizes "door-to-door" transportation through standard containers. It has the advantages of safety, economy, and reduced loss. It helps Central Asian agricultural products enter the Chinese market more efficiently and enrich people's dining tables.
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The article reported signs of supply tightening in Singapore, the world's largest ship fuel filling center. Due to the conflict in the Middle East, fuel prices have fluctuated sharply, and distributors have reduced forward purchases and prioritized long-term customers to manage risk, leading to supply tensions in the market. Although the authorities say the supply is sufficient, the price of very low sulfur fuel oil has soared by 160 percent since the beginning of the year, and the market has failed to meet the standards of fuel, causing equipment problems.
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The world's largest 24000TEU-class LNG dual-fuel power container ship "Dafei Paris Grand Palace" built by Hudong Zhonghua for France's Dafei Group was delivered seven and a half months in advance. With a total length of 399 meters, the ship can carry nearly 24000 standard tanks and 18000 cubic meters of LNG fuel tanks. It has a clean power endurance of nearly 20000 nautical miles and greatly reduces pollutant emissions compared with traditional fuel tankers. The ship will be put into operation on the Mediterranean route, marking new achievements in the cooperation between China and France in the field of green shipping and high-end manufacturing.
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The Greater Bay Area Shipping Joint Service Platform was officially released recently. The platform reconstructs the shipping transaction ecology with digitalization, providing global shipowners and shipping enterprises with one-stop online services for the whole process of shipping assets and port assets. Through online and global transaction settlement, the platform solves the pain points of traditional transactions, integrates the advantages of Hong Kong and Nansha, and creates the shipping trading rules with the characteristics of the Greater Bay Area. At present, the platform has become the largest and leading integrated shipping trading service platform in South China, covering the whole chain of services and a variety of ship types, and has set up branches in Indonesia and Hong Kong to serve the global market.
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From January to February this year, Fujian's ship exports reached 4.11 billion billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 2.1 times, a record high for the same period. Among them, state-owned enterprises are the main export, bulk carriers are the main export category, and the export of liquid cargo ships shows explosive growth. In terms of export markets, the European Union is the main market, and emerging markets such as Latin America and Africa have performed well and become new growth points.
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In 2026, the railway Spring Festival was successfully completed, and a number of transportation indicators reached a record high. Railways across the country sent a total of 0.538 billion passengers, an increase of 4.8 percent over the same period last year, and 0.424 billion tons of goods, an increase of 2.1 percent over the same period last year. During the Spring Festival, the railway department gave full play to the advantages of the road network, operating more than 12000 passenger trains per day, and the transportation capacity increased by 8.3 year-on-year. At the same time, it launched convenient measures such as free refund and fare discount for wrong purchase, and made every effort to ensure the transportation of key materials such as electricity, coal and grain. The number of China Europe trains increased by 15.5 year on year, effectively serving the national economy and international supply chain.
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Continued fighting in the Middle East has severely disrupted the Strait of Hormuz, a key global shipping channel, triggering shipping disruptions, soaring costs and supply chain adjustments. Shipping giants were forced to suspend routes or detour the Cape of Good Hope, extend their voyages by 10-14 days, and increase freight, war insurance premiums and fuel prices. This not only impacts the global transportation of energy and raw materials, but also poses a threat to high-precision industries such as automobile manufacturing, forcing some goods to turn to air transportation, highlighting the far-reaching impact of geopolitics on the global economic and trade "artery.
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From January to February 2026, China's industrial energy production above designated size showed a steady and progressive trend. The decline in raw coal production narrowed, crude oil production turned from decline to increase, natural gas production grew steadily, and the growth rate of electricity production accelerated significantly. Among them, the processing volume of crude oil has maintained growth, the thermal power has changed from decline to increase, the growth rate of hydropower has accelerated, while the growth rate of nuclear power, wind power and solar power has slowed down.
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The outline of the 10th five-year Plan makes key arrangements for the construction of a modern comprehensive transportation system, emphasizes adhering to the principle of moderate advance, and strengthens overall planning and layout optimization. The plan proposes to promote the improvement of the strong chain of the supplementary network, improve the main framework of the national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network, build high-quality strategic backbone channels, and basically build the "eight vertical and eight horizontal" high-speed railway network and the national highway network. At the same time, strengthen traffic coverage in weak areas, build world-class port clusters and airport clusters, improve the international transport corridor system, and coordinate the development of green safety and intelligence, deepen the reform of the transport system, and comprehensively enhance the comprehensive efficiency and resilience of transport infrastructure.
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Li Qiang, premier of the State Council, presided over the executive meeting of the State Council to discuss and adopt the plan for the division of key work of the State Council in 2026. He stressed the need to thoroughly implement the decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee, focus on the primary task of high-quality development, and coordinate the key work of promoting scientific and technological innovation, expanding domestic demand, deepening reform and ensuring people's livelihood. The meeting required all departments to clarify their responsibilities, refine measures, and strengthen coordination to ensure that various tasks are effective, promote the continuous improvement of economic operations, and achieve the annual economic and social development goals.
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Since the "14th Five-Year Plan", Huainan City has relied on the "one vertical and one horizontal" golden waterway of the Huaihe River and the Jianghuai Canal to build a Jianghuai shipping hub. By consolidating the hardware foundation, optimizing the port layout of "one port and seven districts", speeding up the construction of water transportation projects, strengthening safety and environmental protection, and promoting green and intelligent development, Huainan Port has become an important hub port in northern Anhui and southeastern Henan, with an annual throughput ranking first among the ports along the Huaihe River in the province, and actively laying out the new energy shipping industry to promote the high-quality transformation of the regional economy.
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The article reported the progress of Sichuan Luzhou water transport construction in the first quarter to grab a "good start. This paper focuses on the construction of the first phase of the big foot stone operation area in Longjiang port area of Luzhou port. the project plans to build four multi-functional berths, aiming at building a modern intelligent wharf, strengthening the port energy level and promoting the integrated development of port, industry and city. At the same time, the article mentions that the local green shipbuilding industry is working together to depict a new picture of the development of modern water transport in Tongjiang and Dahai, Luzhou.
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Recently, the "Yingkou-Shouguang-Gaoqing" container sea-river intermodal transport channel was officially opened, marking the Shandong Port Bohai Bay Port has made important progress in expanding multimodal transport. The channel adopts the seamless connection mode of "maritime inland river". After the goods arrive at Shouguang port area by sea from Yingkou port, they are transferred to Gaoqing port by Xiaoqing river inland river ships, forming an efficient logistics closed loop. This move not only reduces the comprehensive logistics costs of enterprises along the route, but also promotes the regional material circulation and green transportation transformation, and injects new impetus into the development of shipping in the Xiaoqing River Basin.
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The Anhui Provincial Development and Reform Commission recently issued a number of policies to promote the expansion and quality of the service industry (2026), proposing 16 specific measures aimed at building a new system of high-quality and efficient service industry. The policy focuses on five aspects: supporting the development of digital intelligence in the service industry and giving subsidies of up to 5 million yuan to the transformation of enterprises; Stimulate investment vitality and focus on subsidizing producer service projects; Cultivate and strengthen business entities to solve the financing problems of small and micro enterprises; Innovate quantum information, intelligent logistics and other application scenarios; Expand opening to the outside world and encourage the development of shipping routes and international certification. These measures aim to comprehensively enhance the competitiveness and modernization level of Anhui's service industry through financial support and policy guidance.
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The country's first cross-border e-commerce retail export "pre-regulatory warehouse" was officially opened in Weihai, Shandong Province recently. This model directly embeds customs supervision into the production process of the e-commerce platform warehouse, realizing one-stop processing of the whole process of declaration, inspection and packing, greatly reducing customs clearance time and logistics costs. This is an innovative supervision mode introduced by the customs for the characteristics of low single ticket value and high delivery frequency of cross-border e-commerce retail exports. It effectively solves the problems of multiple links, long time consumption and high risk of dumping goods under the traditional mode, further optimizes the business environment at ports and helps enterprises to go to sea efficiently.
