The 2026 Greater Bay Area (Guangzhou) Shipping Conference opened in Guangzhou's Nansha district on Friday, drawing about 350 officials, business executives, experts, and scholars from the mainland, Hong Kong, and Macao.
Attendees discussed port construction, green shipping, and shipping finance, among other topics, while parallel sessions and special events ran alongside the main event, organizers said.
The conference is held at the Nansha port area, at the mouth of the Pearl River. The port area handled more than 22 million TEUs, the standard twenty-foot container measure, in 2025, with goods clearance value above 1.2 trillion yuan ($180.45 billion). It operates more than 180 foreign trade lanes and has shipped out more than 500,000 vehicles between January and September.
