Typhoon White Dolphin approaches Ningbo; emergency response activated. Authorities enhance maritime safety measures, urging vessels and public to stay alert and prepared.

Ningbo launched a Maritime Finance Resource Allocation Center to enhance financial services, leveraging data-driven technologies to solve shipping industry's financing challenges.

Chongqing introduced a new technical standard, 'Port Shoreline Measurement Norm,' to optimize port shoreline management and address challenges in water level differences.

China's South China Sea rescue team recently completed its 33rd rotation, enhancing maritime safety through emergency missions, training, and international cooperation.

2026 Yangtze River downstream emergency rescue meeting emphasized collaboration, capacity building, innovation, and safety enhancement for efficient maritime response.

The Sanya Yazhou Bay leisure fishery public wharf project has been completed, advancing marine economy transformation and enhancing fishing port functionality.

According to the statistics of Chongqing Railway Logistics Center of Chengdu Bureau of the State Railway, in the first quarter of 2026, the traffic volume of the new land and sea channel in western Chongqing increased by more than 30% year-on-year, realizing a double increase in the number of trains and the loading volume. Chongqing has realized the deep integration of multimodal transport by building a modern logistics system. At present, the channel has covered 138 stations in China and 584 ports in 127 countries around the world.

On April 28, 2025, the Shanghai Maritime Court held a symposium to inform the 2020-2025 maritime litigation services and typical cases, focusing on the facilitation, specialization, coordination and internationalization of litigation services, the introduction of the "Model Clause" and "Special Arbitration Case Guidelines", and continue to create maritime dispute resolution preferred.

The Supreme People's Court issued the second batch of typical cases of service guarantee for the construction of new land-sea corridors in the western region, covering cross-border trade, logistics and transportation, and the identification of extraterritorial laws, and demonstrated the role of justice in the "hard connectivity" of infrastructure and the "soft connectivity" of rules and mechanisms. The supporting role is aimed at optimizing the legalized business environment and providing fair and efficient judicial guarantees for channel construction.

Shanghai has issued the Implementation Plan of the National Digital Economy Innovation and Development Pilot Zone (Shanghai), proposing that the value of data elements will be fully activated by 2028, and 30 measures will be formulated around 7 aspects, including marketization of data elements, computing power scheduling, satellite Internet, low-altitude economy and AI manufacturing, aimed at deepening the integration of real numbers, cultivating benchmarking enterprises in the digital economy and expanding high-level open cooperation.

Through the strong operation data of China-Europe Express (Xi'an), this paper reveals the motivation for Shaanxi's total import and export volume to increase by 69% year-on-year from January to February this year, the first growth rate in the country. This paper analyzes the highlights of the increase in the efficiency of the cross-Caspian route, the increase in the proportion of high value-added goods, the rapid growth of processing trade and bonded logistics, and shows how the inland provinces can deeply integrate into the global economic and trade system with the help of international logistics channels, and see the positive trend of China's economic opening vitality and industrial upgrading.

The Maritime Safety Administration of the Ministry of Transport recently issued the "Guidelines for Shipping Enterprises to Implement the Main Responsibility for Safe Production (1.0 Edition)" and 6 supporting work guidelines to build a "16" safety management system. The guide covers the whole process, all elements and all posts of safe production. It aims to deepen the dual prevention mechanism of risk control and hidden danger investigation, strengthen safety control in key periods, improve the intrinsic safety level of ships, and improve the ability of ship and shore personnel to perform their duties, so as to consolidate the foundation for the safe development of China's shipping industry and curb typical accidents such as collisions of commercial fishing vessels.

The outline of the 15th five-year Plan for Beijing's National Economic and Social Development was officially issued, proposing that it will continue to improve the level of integration in the fields of transportation and ecology, and strive to make up for the shortcomings of public services. The focus of the plan includes improving the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei rapid transportation network, building a world-class airport group, expanding effective investment, and improving the modern logistics system. It aims to enhance the ability of regional coordinated development through a series of major projects and intelligent upgrades, and serve the country. Market construction.

The National Bureau of Statistics released national economic data for the first quarter of 2024, with GDP growing by 5.0 per cent year-on-year, making a good start. The service industry maintained rapid growth, of which the added value of transportation, storage and postal services increased by 4.3. The total volume of imports and exports of goods has grown rapidly, and the structure has been continuously optimized. The import and export of countries jointly building the "Belt and Road" has increased significantly. Fixed asset investment grew steadily, and infrastructure investment grew at a faster rate.

In the first quarter of 2024, China-Europe trains opened 5460 trains and sent goods 546000 standard boxes, up 29% and 22% year-on-year, respectively, showing a good trend of rising quantity and quality. Through a series of measures, such as expanding the channel network, improving the efficiency of customs clearance, optimizing logistics products, improving service quality and issuing high-quality development index, the railway department has continuously enhanced the competitiveness of the international logistics brand of China Europe train, and injected new vitality into the trade exchanges between China and Europe and the economic and social development along the line.