en.Wedoany.com Reported - From May 26 to 28, the 10th Maritime Silk Road Port International Cooperation Forum 2026 was held at the Ningbo International Conference Center. With the theme of "Resilience and Collaboration for a Win-Win Future," this year's forum featured multiple forums, conferences, and associated events. Zhao Yan, President of the China Classification Society (CCS), was invited to attend the forum and discuss pathways for industry development and cooperation with representatives from the global port and shipping community.
At the Maritime Silk Road Port and Shipping High-Level Roundtable, Zhao Yan proposed that high-quality industry development must focus on three key directions: resilience, green development, and safety—enhancing the resilience of the port and shipping supply chain through synergy and connectivity, supporting the implementation of green transformation with a solid safety foundation, and promoting the improvement of international rules through pioneering practices while contributing Chinese solutions. He called for joint efforts to build a more resilient, greener, and higher-quality port and shipping community with a shared future.
At the opening ceremony of the subsequent Hong Kong Forum and Clean Energy Supply Chain Exchange, Zhao Yan delivered a keynote speech on the outcomes of the IMO MEPC 84 meeting. He provided an in-depth interpretation and analysis of the policy direction, development trends, and opportunities in the global shipping industry's green and low-carbon transition, and proposed suggestions focusing on technological foundations and contributing industry expertise. Regarding future industry trends, Zhao Yan advised that the shipping industry should anchor itself in technological certainty at the current stage, accelerate the research and implementation of core technical rules, and jointly uphold the unified framework of IMO multilateral governance. CCS has always been deeply involved in IMO technical discussions and has accumulated extensive practical experience in green ship technology, clean energy applications, and smart shipping systems. Notably, it has achieved significant results in the design and certification of clean energy vessels using LNG, methanol fuel, and ammonia fuel, enabling it to provide comprehensive technical support for the global shipping industry to achieve carbon neutrality goals.
Since its inception in 2015, the Maritime Silk Road Port International Cooperation Forum has consistently adhered to the principles of "openness, inclusiveness, resilience, collaboration, and value sharing," committed to building an important international exchange and cooperation platform in the port and shipping sector from a global perspective, and promoting the construction of a global port and shipping community with a shared future. The forum has attracted over 10,000 participants from more than 80 countries and regions across six continents, with its outcomes included twice in the results list of the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation. It has now become a landmark platform connecting the world, serving the Belt and Road Initiative, and empowering the construction of world-class ports and an open province.
The hosting of this forum not only provided a high-level exchange and cooperation platform for the global shipping industry but also injected new momentum into deepening port and shipping cooperation and promoting green shipping development among countries and regions along the Maritime Silk Road. CCS will continue to leverage its technical strengths and international influence, actively participate in the green transformation and high-quality development process of the global shipping industry, and contribute more to the sustainable development of the global shipping industry.
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