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.

The article reports the positive progress of transportation construction in Sichuan Province in the first quarter of 2024. The province's 66 continued transportation projects resumed work and production ahead of schedule, 24 new construction projects advanced in an orderly manner, forming a "continued speed, new breakthrough" situation, highway and waterway construction investment completed 58.01 billion yuan. The progress of the Ziyong Expressway project connecting Sichuan and Chongqing is highlighted, with more than half of the progress of the bridge subgrade entering the critical stage. At the same time, water transportation investment has increased significantly, highway investment has increased steadily, and national and provincial trunk line projects have started one after another, providing solid transportation support for regional economic development.

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.

The Maritime Safety Administration of the Ministry of Transport recently issued the "Opinions on Promoting the Green and Low-Carbon Transformation and Development of Shipping" to systematically deploy the key tasks of green and low-carbon development of shipping. The "Opinions" proposed to build a new energy ship technical specification and safety supervision system by 2030, establish a shipping carbon emission monitoring and verification system, and promote the carbon emission intensity of international navigation ships to reduce by more than 15%. The document defines 12 key tasks from the four dimensions of policies and regulations, ship transformation, industrial coordination and security, aiming to provide support for the construction of a strong transportation country and the green transformation of transportation.

Tianjin port successfully landed the first ticket "TIR cold chain" model frozen goods import business. A special cold chain vehicle loaded with 21 tons of frozen chicken feet starts from Russia and goes directly to Tianjin via Manzhouli Port. It does not unpack or change clothes during the whole process. TIR system is used to realize "one declaration, one certificate direct delivery", thus greatly shortening the transportation time. Through the "zero temperature difference" inspection technology, the cold chain base of the international logistics company realizes "inspection on arrival", provides efficient and seamless cold chain customs clearance services for high-value fresh frozen products, and improves the comprehensive service function of Tianjin Port.

Weekly analysis of global corn markets: prices fell due to bearish USDA data and lower oil prices. China's spot and futures markets show weak trends amid rising supply and policy changes.

In the first quarter of this year, the export of high-end equipment in Taicang Port showed a high-speed growth trend, and the export of transport ships and the weight and volume of goods increased significantly year-on-year. Taicang Maritime Safety Administration has effectively ensured transportation safety and efficiency, saved costs for enterprises and helped port development by formulating special supervision guidelines, establishing a "one ship, one file" management system, strengthening the online intelligent supervision platform enabled by science and technology, and optimizing approval services.

On April 9, 2026, China Communications News held a thematic publicity work promotion meeting in Shangrao, Jiangxi. The purpose of the meeting is to strengthen the role of newspapers as the main propaganda position. By strengthening thematic propaganda, achievement propaganda and typical propaganda, we can tell traffic stories in the new era and significantly improve the information reach rate. The meeting stressed the need to serve the party group of the Ministry of Transport and the whole industry, build consensus, create a good atmosphere of public opinion, and set a benchmark in creating a new situation in propaganda, ideological and cultural work in order to speed up the construction of a strong transportation country.

Shanghai Jinjiang Shipping's 2025 annual report shows that the company's revenue reached 7.01 billion billion yuan, an increase of 17.43 percent over the same period last year, and the net profit attributable to its parent was 1.5 billion billion yuan, a sharp increase of 47 percent over the same period last year. The performance growth is mainly due to the stable profitability of traditional advantageous routes (such as Shanghai Japan route), as well as the expansion of new regional markets such as Southeast Asia and the creation of high-quality routes. The company continues to cultivate the Asian route network, with a total capacity of 66000 TEU.

Analysis of China's hog market divergence: futures hit lows while A-share pig stocks rally. Explores pig cycle dynamics, capacity reduction pace, and policy impacts on future pricing.

From January to February 2024, the container throughput of Ningbo Zhoushan Port reached 7.987 million million TEUs, an increase of 19.8 percent over the same period last year, far exceeding the average level of major ports in the country, ranking second in the world. In the context of global geopolitical conflicts affecting trade routes, ports rely on more than 300 route networks and intelligent transformation to ensure efficient operation. Zhejiang Province is cracking the bottleneck of collection and distribution through major infrastructure projects and multimodal transport system, and is actively planning to upgrade to the whole industrial chain model of "storage and transportation + processing + trade", so as to enhance the voice of strategic materials and build a domestic and international double-cycle strategic hub.

Analysis of China's pork market surge amid government reserve purchases, low prices, and overcapacity. Covers market data, supply-demand dynamics, and 2026 investment outlook for leading companies.

With methionine prices soaring over 100% in early 2026, explore 4 proven feed alternatives—betaine, MHA, coated methionine & choline—to cut costs without compromising animal performance.

Indonesia's palm oil exports rose 4.42% in February 2026. Exports to China surged 34.8%, while shipments to India fell 19.6%. CPO exports grew slightly, but refined palm oil trends varied.

On March 29, 2026, Shanghai Wusongkou International Cruise Port successfully realized the first "three mails together", ushering in the "Mediterranean Gorgeous", "Maisif 6" and the first domestic large-scale cruise ship "Ada Modu" berthing at the same time. Facing the challenges of high navigation density and complex coordination, Baoshan Maritime Safety Administration has ensured the safe and orderly entry and exit of nearly 10,000 passengers through the precise guarantee of "one ship, one policy", intelligent three-dimensional supervision and multi-party coordination. This efficient operation demonstrated the excellent cruise reception capacity and maritime service level of Shanghai Port, and strongly promoted the energy level of Shanghai International Shipping Center and the high-quality development of cruise economy.