The Greater Bay Area Maritime Joint Service Platform was officially launched.

　　Guangzhou, March 19 (China News Service) (Reporter Xu Qingqing) On the 19th, the reporter learned from the Guangzhou Trading Group that the Greater Bay Area Shipping Joint Service Platform has been officially launched recently. This platform digitally reconstructs the shipping transaction ecosystem, providing global shipowners, shipping companies, logistics providers, financial institutions, ports, and marine equipment companies with a one-stop online service for the entire process of shipping assets, port assets, marine equipment asset listing, matching, settlement, evaluation inspection, maritime technology, and import-export agency.

　　The platform has achieved online and global transaction settlement, effectively addressing pain points such as lengthy traditional transaction chains, information asymmetry, and weak cross-border services. It fully integrates the advantages of Hong Kong's free port, international finance, maritime legal arbitration, and Nansha's institutional innovation to create shipping transaction rules and standards with Greater Bay Area characteristics, injecting strong digital momentum into the modern shipping service industry of Guangdong and Hong Kong.

　　It is understood that as a major platform proposed for construction in the "Nansha Plan," the Greater Bay Area Shipping Joint Trading Center has gradually turned from blueprint to reality after more than two years of careful planning. In May 2023, 10 units from Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macau jointly signed a strategic cooperation agreement, officially implementing the cooperation framework; in June 2025, the Guangzhou Shipping Joint Trading Center was successfully established, and an unveiling ceremony was held at the Nansha Port Economic High-Quality Development Conference. In the same month, the Indonesia representative office was registered; in December, the Greater Bay Area Shipping Joint Service (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd. was registered, forming a "Guangzhou-Hong Kong" dual-center, integrated two-wing collaborative pattern.

　　Currently, the Guangzhou Shipping Joint Trading Center has become the largest and leading comprehensive shipping transaction service platform in South China, with an annual average of about 200 ships traded, transaction amounts nearing 4 billion yuan, and cumulative overseas ship transactions exceeding 1.5 billion US dollars, consistently ranking among the top nationwide. The business covers the entire chain of services such as ship transactions, ship price evaluation, technical inspection, import-export agency, and brokerage services, with transaction ship types fully covering categories like bulk carriers, container ships, tankers, tugboats, passenger ships, and engineering ships. Additionally, the trading center independently developed China's first second-hand ship big data intelligent online evaluation platform, using big data to achieve intelligent valuation and controllable risk, effectively enhancing the transparency and operational efficiency of shipping transactions.

　　It is reported that currently, the Guangzhou Shipping Joint Trading Center has established a representative office in Jakarta, Indonesia, and a subsidiary in Hong Kong, with service coverage spanning the globe. (End)