The 16th International Transportation Technology and Equipment Exhibition (hereinafter referred to as the “Transportation Exhibition”) was held in Beijing from September 22 to 24, with the theme of this year's Transportation Exhibition as “Creating a Beautiful Vision of ‘People Enjoying Their Journey, Things Flowing Smoothly’”, and it comprehensively demonstrates the remarkable results of sustainable innovation and development in various fields of transportation.

As the world's largest integrated shipping enterprise, China COSCO SHIPPING was invited to present at the exhibition, bringing a variety of green, low-carbon, digital intelligence and sustainable innovations and solutions to the event. In the morning of September 22, Li Yang, a member of the party group of the Ministry of Transport, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Transport, and other leaders visited the booth of China COSCO SHIPPING and learned in detail about the Group's achievements and applications in sustainable innovations in recent years.

International Transportation Technology and Equipment Exhibition is the only professional international exhibition sponsored by the Ministry of Transport, since its inception in 1992 it has been successfully held for fifteen years. Internationalization, specialization, and market-oriented level are constantly improving. It built a knowledge sharing, technology exchanges, investment, and trading of comprehensive transportation open international exhibition and cooperation platform for domestic and foreign transportation and related fields of enterprises and institutions. It has played an important role in promoting the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and transportation industry innovation.

The iFlorens container trade platform independently developed by Florens International Company Limited, a subsidiary of COSCO SHIPPING Development, appeared in the exhibition area and attracted a lot of attention in the exhibition. iFlorens container trade platform is a typical case of the company's digitization landing in recent years, which constructs a new potential energy of development by digital intelligence. The platform is the only container trade platform in China, which is an integrated supply chain platform covering “return-repair-adjustment-sale” by gathering intelligent algorithms, logistics data, global outlets and other key production factors. By actively integrating into the global digital supply chain system of containers, the platform helps to solve the problems of difficult matching of supply and demand, and high disposal costs among the industry chain parties such as container owners, ship owners and buyers. At present, the platform has provided corresponding digital services for more than 400 customers in more than 180 ports around the world, and the online transaction volume has exceeded RMB1.2 billion.

Meanwhile, the company exhibited its progress in assisting the green transformation and development of the port and shipping industry, constructing ship charging and switching networks around the comprehensive services of the whole chain of ship electrification, and promoting the application of ship electrification and clean energy in the domestic coastal and inland river basins.

In the future, COSCO SHIPPING Development will continue to strengthen scientific research, aim at the frontiers of science and technology, accelerate the shift to innovation-driven new momentum, digital empowerment as competitiveness, and endeavor to build the core potential for sustainable development.