Shanghai has been working to improve logistics efficiency and continuing to play its role as an international shipping centre despite challenges induced by the resurgence of COVID-19 there. A slew of measures has been taken to ensure smooth cargo flow, including services to enable more enterprises to transfer containers by water instead of road.
The city administration has been promoting contactless transportation of bulk cargo as well.
According to Yuan Hao, deputy general manager of COSCO SHIPPING Lines (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., more than 120 of its ships have docked at Shanghai port to load and unload cargo since late March.
According to statistics released by the city last week, the water-water transfer of 2.12 million 20-foot equivalent units (TEUs) of containers was completed at Shanghai port in March—up by 17.1 per cent from the previous month.
Since April, the average daily arrival of sea-rail combined transport was 1,670 TEUs—up by 25.8 per cent from the first quarter, an official news agency reported.
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