Zhitong Financial APP learned that on August 16, affected by the news of orderly cooperation and coordinated development of ports guided by the International Shipping Hub Development Index, the A-share port shipping plate fluctuated strongly. As of press time, COSCO Marine Energy (600026.SH) hit the limit. Shares such as Cosco Haite (600428.SH), China Merchants Shipping (601872.SH), China Merchants Southern Oil (601975.SH), Ningbo Shipping (600798.SH), COSCO Haifa (601866.SH), Sheng Hang (001205.SZ) and 600179.SH Holdings (600179.SH) rose.

At the 2022 Qingdao land-sea linkage seminar held on the 15th, the "International Shipping Hub Development Index-RCEP Regional report (2022)" compiled by the Xinhua Index of China Economic Information Society was officially released, which analyzed the comprehensive energy levels of 29 major shipping hubs in the RCEP region. Cao Wenzhong, vice president of the China Economic Information Society, interpreted the index report. Cao Wenzhong said that the previously released Xinhua Baltic International Shipping Center Development Index comprehensively considered the integrated development of ports, industries and cities, while the International Shipping Hub Development Index released this time focuses more on the capacity elements of logistics hubs and pays more attention to the development and improvement of the port's own energy level. it is another world-class port and navigation evaluation index launched by China Economic Information Society for the world. The purpose of this paper is to guide the orderly cooperation and coordinated development of the hub port group, and highlight the soft connectivity capability of the shipping hub. The coordinated operation of the two indices has always been based on an international perspective and contributed to the optimal allocation and sustainable development of global port and shipping resources.

On the same day, the Ministry of Transport released the main statistical indicators of the transportation industry in July. Data show that fixed asset investment in highway and waterway transportation reached 259.1 billion yuan in July, an increase of 7.5 percent over the same period last year. Of this total, highway investment was 245.2 billion yuan, an increase of 6.8% over the same period last year. The national port cargo throughput in July was 1.34002 billion tons, an increase of 5.7 percent over the same period last year, and the container throughput reached 26.36 million TEUs, an increase of 11.2 percent over the same period last year. In July, the waterway freight volume reached 738.99 million tons.