China News Service, Guangzhou, March 26 (Reporter Cai Minjie) The COSCO Shipping Special Transport 2026 Global Partner Conference was held in Guangzhou on the 26th. At the conference, the "Consensus on Building a Resilient Industrial Chain and Constructing a Smart New Corridor" (hereinafter referred to as the "Greater Bay Area Consensus") was released, gathering consensus and momentum for the development of the special transportation industry in the Greater Bay Area and globally.

　　The core of the special transportation industry is to provide integrated transportation services with dedicated carriers, customized solutions, and full-process control for goods with special attributes and requirements. It is a key logistics transportation supporting high-end manufacturing, new energy, major projects, and global trade. Typical goods include drilling platforms, locomotives and train carriages, wind power equipment, bridge cranes, complete sets of equipment, and other oversized, overweight, and oversized items, as well as goods with special transportation and loading and unloading requirements. The main types of transport ships include semi-submersible ships, pulp ships, multipurpose heavy lift ships, pulp ships, asphalt ships, and other special ship types.

　　In the face of global changes and industrial transformation, building a safe, resilient, and smart industrial chain supply chain has become a common global issue, requiring the collaborative creation of industry, academia, research, application, and integration. The "Greater Bay Area Consensus" was jointly initiated by COSCO Shipping Special Transport, government agencies, research institutions, and various partners.

　　This consensus gathers four common commitments for the future: First, to jointly build the foundation of "connectivity," optimize the global hub layout, and open up key engineering corridors to ensure the smooth flow of the global logistics network; second, to jointly establish the benchmark of "standards," connecting the entire chain service system from shipping to delivery, providing more certain logistics guarantees for global trade; third, to jointly initiate the momentum of "digital," empowering the entire supply chain process with intelligent technology to enhance supply chain resilience and operational efficiency; fourth, to jointly draw the "green" blueprint, exploring carbon reduction throughout the entire lifecycle from energy to transportation.

　　At the same time, this conference launched a new service system for key logistics corridors. COSCO Shipping Special Transport will integrate and upgrade previously scattered routes and projects into five long-term, stable core logistics corridors, involving logistics in the fields of offshore engineering, automobiles/engineering vehicles, bulk commodity imports, advanced manufacturing going overseas, and new energy projects.

　　Among them, the automobile/engineering vehicle logistics corridor relies on a professional car fleet of more than 30 ships and innovative modes such as "pulp ship with dedicated frame" and "heavy lift ship hoisting," focusing on the liner route network of six core markets including the Persian Gulf, Northwest Europe, Southeast Africa, the Mediterranean, and Australia and New Zealand. It has built an integrated warehousing and distribution service system in regions such as Europe, the Middle East, and South America, as well as rich digital and standardized innovative achievements, providing full-chain services for global automobile/engineering vehicle exports.

　　The new energy engineering logistics corridor provides full-process customized services for different categories of goods such as wind power, energy storage, and photovoltaics. Currently, this corridor has established a global new energy logistics network covering regions such as Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and Latin America, assisting China's new energy industry in transitioning from "product export" to "brand export, industry export." By 2025, it will complete the transportation tasks of over 6 million billing tons of wind power equipment and over 9,000 energy storage cabinets. (End)