Shipping Davos settles in Shenzhen, 500 international shipping & trading high end managing people gather together to Win in Future Changes.

During the period of November 23-24, colorful flags flutter in front of Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center, the long expecting senior business connection within global shipping and trade industry-2007 2nd  Global Shipping Summit known as Shipping Davos has a grand opening. This conference is organized by shippingchina.com. It is a top non-official international shipping summit, attracts more than 500 senior managers from domestic and international shipping and trading companies. Its theme is defined as Win of Change.

2007 2nd Global Shipping Summit has completely changed the traditional conference methods, with various innovative forms such as interaction forum, enterprise presentation, business connection and business card banquet. Under those authorized industrial experts' in depth analysis on realistic problems or challenges, it helps achieve the consolidation of global shipping resources and reduce the cost of logistics industry. It satisfies all attendees' initial objectives and expectations towards this conference.  

Commercial, multi-industrial, international, democratic, open are the five remarkable features of the 2007 2nd Global Shipping Summit (GSS). GSS stimulates the connections among air, rail, sea, road and port transportation businesses; and achieves the integration of logistics flow, business flow, capital flow and information flow. The achievement of the conference expresses the strengths of GSS and its theme Win of Change. Meanwhile, it announces the industrial leading position of Shippingchina.com. in China. The company considers what shipping industry considers; and it worries what the industry worries. It devotes to balancing industrial elements, taking the responsibility to promote the development of international shipping. 

The President of International Multimodal Transport Association Ms.Mahin Faghfouri, the Vice President of Hong Kong Logistics Association Yie QiMing, Former President of Sinotrans Group Mr. Luo Kaifu who currently is the senior consultant of China International Freight Forwarders Association, Mr.Chung tam the Chief of United States Transportation and Logistics Association in China Region, Ms.Yanqiu Shi the Chief Secretary of China Container Industry Association, Mr.Bao QiFan the Vice President of Shanghai International Port (Group) Company Limited Ltd., Ms.Chen Guangping the Vice President of Lianyungang PSA, Mr. Serge de Klebnikoff the Chief Executive of Le Havre Port Authority in China Region, Mr.Huang YouFang the Vice Principal of Shanghai Maritime University, Mr.Liu Bin the Head of International Economy Faculty in Dalian Maritime University, Ding Qiang General Manager of the Ministry of Commerce Electronic Commerce Center Cofortune Information Technology Co., Ltd., Liu Jianying the Board Chairman of Huatai Insurance Brokers Limited, Zhang Xuehui the Director of the National Risk Management Vocational Qualifications Committee, Liu Xiu Chen the Vice General Manager of Ministry of Huaxia Bank's Business Development Department and also the Chief Expert of Finance Management, Mr.Liu Baotian the Vice President of Tianjin Keyun Logistics Group, and other guests attend the event. 

In addition, CCTV, Xinhua News Agency, China's trade report, China Shipping report, First Financial Daily, the China Securities News, China traffic report, International Commercial Daily, Hong Kong Commercial Daily, China's enterprises report, China Economic Times, Securities Daily, New Fortune magazine, Shenzhen TV, Shenzhen Special Zone Press, Shenzhen Commercial Daily, Shenzhen Shipping Weekly, and other more than 40 well-known medias are attending this conference to broadcast live.

At 9 o'clock in the morning of November 23, the 2007 2nd Global Shipping Summit grandly opens in Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center. Professor Mr.Liu Bin performs the opening address, and as the host of the conference, Professor Liu Bin expresses the warmest welcome to guests and attendees, admires the responsibility of Shippingchina.com to achieve Shipping Davos; and wishes a great success of GSS.

Next, CEO of Shippingchina.com Mr.Kang Shuchun performs the welcome address as the Chairman of GSS Committee. Mr.Kang Shuchun claims, The year of 2007 is a challenging year in international shipping world; and it is completely unpredictable in international trading industry. In this year, it is full of impacts, changes, reconstruction of industry structure, challenges and opportunities. Those features make business world more exciting, shocking and scarier than ever. 2007 2nd Global Shipping Summit creates Shipping Davos in shipping world, collects industrial sources; brings international entrepreneurs together; face economic environmental changes; contains various business opportunities and stimulates future success.

After Mr.Kang Shuchun's great speech, 2007 2nd Global Shipping Summit passes all other traditional procedures and directly enters into the phase of interaction forums. The two-day 2007 Global Shipping Summit has a rich schedule, including all the connections among sea, road, air, port, warehousing, trade, banking, insurance, venture investment, information technology, and other logistics supply chain members, fully reflects the five essential conference features and the proportion of overseas participants reaches 25% of the total number; which reflects the internationalism of GSS.

On the first day of the conference, the main programs include interaction forum and topic presentation. In addition, the banquet in the evening brings the conference atmosphere up to the highest. 

The interactive forum The Safety and Connection among Multimodal Transportation Procedures hosted by Mr.Yie-QiMing the Vice President of Hong Kong Logistics Association starts the 2007 Global Shipping Summit forums.

Ms.Mahin Faghfouri the Chairman of the International Multimodal Transport Association performs a great speech in the morning of 23rd Nov. In her speech, she states as international trade and container transportation develops, logistics industry becomes more complex and transportation industry turns to be more multiple dimensions, Multimodal Transportation will surely become the trend in international container transportation industry. There are various combination involved in Multimodal Transportation, including sea-road, sea-air, air-road and many other forms. They are meeting the requirement arising from the rapid development in international trade industry, decrease industrial cost and also enhance the efficiency. 

In addition, the interaction forums Coordinate International Shipping, Win the changes in future, Port Competitive Competence and IT platform for the integration of logistics flow, business flow, capital flow and information flow have been analyzed and discussed in depth by those authorized high end industrial experts. Through the discussion, they indicate the direction for future development.   

In the evening of November 23, the business card banquet, which is sponsored by Lianyungang Group, has been performed to all participants. With the business card exchanging and Chinese-western style entertainment show, business and leisure have been successfully intergraded. The business card Banquet provides a communication platform for those operators in the supply chain. 500 guests join together to win of change.  

The agenda of November 24 has completely incarnated and materialized the commercial atmosphere. In the morning section, over ten enterprises, such as Xuaxia Bank and Tianjin Keyun Logistics Group, make the Enterprise Demo Presentations. In the afternoon, International Logistics Connection, International Multimodal Transportation Connection and Shipping Mart Demonstration and Capital Investment Connection have performed simultaneously. Two-hour Connections provide the entrepreneurs a face-face communication opportunity and fully show the Win of Change ability of the Shipping Davos.     

In the Shipping Mart Demonstration and Capital Investment Connection, Mr.Kang Shuchun, CEO of Shippingchina.com, introduces to participants that, Shipping Mart is the most influential platform in China now. The total volume of online booking has reached 500,000 TEU. We expect it will reach 4,000,000 TEU. The huge business flow will bring 5-10 billion capital flow every year. After the Shipping Mart system being completed, the cost of sea transportation will be lower by 10-20%. Foreign trading companies, freight forwarding companies and ship-owners will benefit from the system.   

The press conference on November 24, afternoon, is a good conclusion for the summit. The organizer's answers to reporters and honored guests have brought the summit to the culminating point. Mr.Kang Shuchun, CEO of Shippingchina.com, answers that, compared to the conference in Dalian last year, 2007 2nd Global Shipping Summit has more advantages, such as wider coverage, more internationalized and more commercialized. In addition, the location of the summit, Shenzhen, is in the front line of Chinese economic revolution. The shipping industry in this city has rapidly increased in recent years. Also, Shenzhen has a significant geographical advantage to hold the summit. With west facing to Zhujiang Delta Area, south connecting with Hong Kong, and not far from Changjiang Delta Area, Shenzhen is the best place to hold the 2007 2nd Global Shipping Summit. 

2007 2nd Global Shipping Summit has been successfully concluded. All achievements obtained in this summit will have heavy impact on the global shipping industry. Shipping Davos has been well recognized by the industry experts. The next summit, will be held in Tianjin, the Second Pudong in China. We expect to achieve more surprises it will bring to the shipping industry.