On May 18, Shandong Port Group held a video conference with Maersk headquarters to discuss on deepening bilateral cooperation. Li Fengli, director and general manager of Shandong Port Group, and Morten Engelstoft, chief executive officer of Maersk terminal company, had an online meeting and discussion.

Shandong Port and Maersk are important strategic partners for each other. Last year, the ship service efficiency of Qingdao Port to Maersk continued to rank first in Maersk's Far East terminal comprehensive ranking, and on 2nd of May this year, it created the world's highest ship hour efficiency of 348 natural containers / hour in the operation of "Maersk" on the European line. Even with the severe epidemic impact last year, Maersk still maintained a stable container volume and scale in Shandong Port. At the same time, it added two Southeast Asian routes, which played a positive role in the construction of northern means of living distribution center in Shandong Port and ensuring the stability of industrial chain supply chain. At present, Maersk is rapidly marching to the mainland, which is in line with the strategic planning of Shandong Port to develop the whole process logistics. The two sides have carried out cooperation in the whole process logistics business.

The two companies jointly looked forward to the future cooperation prospects in the online discussion, and exchanged in-depth views on issues such as the encryption of air routes and the expansion of land sea linkage logistics. Tim Smith, head of Asia region of Maersk terminal company, Wu Bingqing, President of Maersk Greater China region, Xu Lixin, President of Maersk Far East liner center, and Han Yanbin, President of Maersk terminal company in China region, also participated in the video connection, and gave positive response to the cooperation in building end-to-end Logistics and expanding branch line business. Both sides jointly expressed that they will implement the cooperation intention as soon as possible and work together to achieve high-quality development.

Maersky attaches great importance to the development of Shandong Port Group and business expansion in various fields. They are willing to give full play to their own shipping advantages, continue to deepen cooperation with Shandong Port in the fields of full logistics, port shipping decarburization and branch line network, and contribute positive force to Shandong Port Group in accelerating the construction of Northeast Asia international shipping hub.

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