The Hongkou District Shipping Office, in collaboration with the Shanghai Freight Forwarding Association, recently held a digital and intelligent transformation salon for the international freight forwarding industry at the former site of the Lester School and Henry Lester Institute of Technical Education, to have a heated discussion on empowering traditional freight forwarding’s transformation and upgrading with digital technology.
The salon has gathered over 30 international freight and logistics technology enterprises, including AMASS, Wecan Logistics, Shipco Transport, COSCO Shipping Technology, and Walltech. Chen Shuai, Deputy District Governor, attended the salon.
Focusing on the current dilemma of international logistics digital development, the enterprises discussed how to rely on advanced technologies such as cloud computing, the Internet of Things, and big data algorithms to support the digital transformation of the shipping logistics industry at the meeting. In addition, Zijin Tianfeng Futures, and Shanghai Branch of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, and others shared special topics in the perspective of financial institutions assisting freight forwarding enterprises in their transformation and upgrading.
As one of the regions with the most concentrated shipping service enterprises, the most obvious shipping-headquarters characteristics, the most complete shipping elements, and the most complete shipping industry chain, the North Bund has gathered over 4,000 freight forwarding enterprises, which greatly enriches the shipping industry elements of the North Bund.
In the future, Hongkou will assist in the development, transformation, and upgrading of freight forwarding enterprises, further cooperate with industry associations and functional institutions, establish a real-time communication mechanism between the government, institutions, and enterprises, enhance the concentration of technological and regional innovation, promote the extension and upgrading of Hongkou’s freight forwarding, and accelerate the gathering of high-end and diversified formats in Hongkou.