The first zero-carbon transport fleet in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River was formally established in Wuhan, Hubei Province on March 26, consisting of five pure electric container ships built by Huazhong Port and Shipping Group. The first ship "China Airlines Xinneng 1" has achieved nearly 100000 kilometers of zero-emission navigation, a single ship annual carbon reduction of 334 tons. The fleet will operate the inter-city green routes in the province in a high-density "daily shift" mode, and build a green water transport channel between the Han River and the Yangtze River, providing a new path for the green and intensive development of China's inland waterway.

On March 22, Guiping Hongxin Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. held a green intelligent ship commencement ceremony and signed contracts with three enterprises to build 19 new energy ships, with a total investment of about 0.336 billion yuan. This batch of ships includes methanol-powered distribution ships, pure electric-powered bulk carriers and LNG hybrid oil and chemical ships, all of which are the first batch of similar new energy ships in Guangxi. The project actively responds to the national "double carbon" strategy, which marks an important step in the green and intelligent ship industry of Guiping City, and will promote the transformation of Xijiang golden waterway to green and low carbon.

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On March 23, 2025, the fifth large-scale Mark III Flex membrane LNG carrier "ARADA" built by Jiangnan Shipbuilding for Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) was successfully delivered four months ahead of schedule. This delivery marks another important achievement of this series of projects and demonstrates China's strength in the field of high-end clean energy equipment manufacturing. The ship has achieved a number of technological breakthroughs in the construction process, especially through the optimization of processes and innovative processes, creating a record for the shortest trial of this series of ships, significantly improving efficiency and reducing energy consumption, and winning high recognition from international customers.

On March 22, 2026, Premier Li Qiang attended the opening ceremony of the annual meeting of the China Development Forum and delivered a keynote speech. The speech deeply analyzed the complex changes in the current international situation and stressed that under the background of rising unilateralism and protectionism, cooperation and development forces are also growing. Premier Li Qiang put forward three core propositions: to create incremental markets through openness and technological innovation rather than competing for stocks; to look at competition with a positive attitude and promote benign competition and cooperation to achieve mutual benefit and win-win results; to strengthen confidence and take China's "Tenth Five-Year Plan" as the world New opportunities, committed to becoming the "cornerstone of certainty" of the world ".

The construction of the public wharf project in the East Flow Port Area of Chizhou Port is being accelerated. Through technological innovation and inverted construction period, it is planned to fully implement the "corridor-water combined transport" system in 2027. The coastline of the project is 650 meters long, and 4 5000-ton berths are planned to be constructed with a designed annual throughput of 21.8 million tons. At present, water and land construction are advancing simultaneously, and innovative designs such as bridge structures are used to enhance safety. After the completion of the project, the integrated operation of mines, corridors and ports will be realized, and the green logistics development of "ore does not fall to the ground and dust does not fly" will be promoted.

The "Qinzhou Inland River Port Master Plan (2035)" was recently approved by the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region government, marking that the port has officially entered a new stage of planning and leading construction. As the key carrier of the river-sea intermodal transport system of the Pinglu Canal, the plan will promote the port to build a spatial pattern of "two ports, five operation areas and multiple ports", undertake the freight demand of industries along the line, serve the national strategies such as the large-scale development of the western region, the construction of new land-sea channels in the western region and cooperation with ASEAN, and inject strong impetus into the quality, cost reduction and high-quality development of regional logistics.

This paper focuses on the implementation of the spirit of the 2026 National Transportation Work Conference in Jiangsu Province, and expounds the overall goal of Jiangsu's transportation development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period and the key tasks for the first year of 2026. The article focuses on three major areas: the first is to improve the comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network and promote the construction of major projects such as roads, railways, water transportation, aviation and river-crossing channels; the second is to deepen the development of multimodal transportation and promote transportation logistics to reduce costs, improve quality and efficiency; the third is Optimize the supply of travel services, improve the quality of public transportation and passenger transportation services and the efficiency of transportation operations. The aim is to accelerate the modernization of transportation and efficiently serve the new practice of Chinese modernization in Jiangsu.

This paper introduces the remarkable achievements made by the Shanghai maritime department under the accurate guarantee since the first anniversary of the opening of the "three ports and one voyage" route. Route safe operation of zero accidents, efficient completion of over -640000 standard container transport, greatly improve logistics efficiency, reduce comprehensive costs. Shanghai Maritime has built a strong security line through risk research, intelligent dynamic supervision and strengthening emergency protection, improved operational efficiency through process optimization and technological innovation, and promoted green co-governance and commercial and fishing co-governance to help green transformation of shipping and high-quality development of regional economy.

Recently, the "Yingkou-Shouguang-Gaoqing" container sea-river intermodal transport channel was officially opened, marking the addition of an efficient logistics channel to the "golden waterway" of Xiaoqing River. The channel adopts the seamless connection mode of "maritime inland river". The goods are transported from Yingkou Port to Shouguang Port by sea, and then directly to Gaoqing Port along the inland river of Xiaoqing River, forming a closed loop of the whole intermodal transport. This shortens the transit time, reduces the logistics cost, provides a more economical, green and stable transportation scheme for enterprises along the line, and effectively promotes the regional material circulation and the green transformation of "revolution to water.

The "Tenth Five-Year Plan" outline clearly proposes to improve the modern comprehensive transportation system, focusing on promoting the improvement of the strong chain of transportation infrastructure, improving the main framework of the national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network, strengthening the coverage of weak areas, and building an international comprehensive transportation hub. Improve the diversified international transportation channel system, coordinate the development of green safety and intelligence, and deepen the reform of the comprehensive transportation system. The plan also involves key areas such as high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road", promoting low-carbon substitution of transportation power, and promoting high-quality development of the marine economy. It aims to build an efficient, green, intelligent, and resilient integrated transportation network to support high-quality economic and social development.

This paper expounds the planning and action of the Institute of Water Transport Science of the Ministry of Transport in the first year of the "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan", anchoring the strategic objectives of the transportation power, strengthening the three major leads of strategy, innovation and standards, and promoting the high-quality development of water transport scientific research. The article focuses on its strategic measures in deepening maritime strategic research, building high-end think tanks in the industry and ensuring safe and smooth maritime transport. Innovation and leadership in tackling key core technologies, promoting the "artificial intelligence water transport" action and creating a scientific and technological innovation platform; As well as the standard leading work in improving the water transport standard system, promoting the internationalization of standards and deepening the landing of standards, aiming at building a strong water transport scientific research national team, provide solid support for the development of the industry.

Pulp prices retreat amid slow trading. Oversupply persists with high port inventories, while Middle East tensions raise costs. Paper demand recovers seasonally but price hikes remain limited.

Analysis of cotton market trends: short-term pressure from import quotas & USDA report, but long-term support from strong demand, reduced planting, and favorable policies.