On December 29, 2018, Hainan Province launched the new Haihai-ASEAN (Singapore) liner route and the inaugural ceremony of the Hainan-ASEAN (Singapore) liner route jointly hosted by Hainan Provincial People's Government and China Ocean Shipping Group Co., Ltd. in Hainan Yangpu The International Development Zone of the Economic Development Zone was held at the Little Shoal Beach Terminal. Xiao Yaqing, director of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, Shen Xiaoming, governor of Hainan Provincial People's Government, Wang Lu, deputy governor, Xu Lirong, chairman of China Ocean Shipping Group, and Wang Huisheng, chairman of China Development and Investment Group Co., Ltd. attended the ceremony. The Governor of Hainan Provincial People's Government Shen Xiaoming announced the start of the first flight. Xiao Yaqing, Shen Xiaoming, Wang Lu, Xu Lirong, Wang Huisheng and other common putters started the maiden voyage. At the same time, the “New Fangcheng” and “Mark” of COSCO Shipping at Yangpu Port were called. The "Honour" round began container loading and unloading operations.
The “Hainan-ASEAN (Singapore)” liner service of COSCO Shipping started its first flight in Hainan, and opened a direct flight route from Yangpu South to Singapore in the western part of China. At the same time, it also opened up the cargo of China’s coastal ports through Yangpu. The new channel in Southeast Asia announced that Hainan Yangpu Port has become the new fulcrum of “new international land and sea trade”, marking a new international land and sea trade channel with Qinzhou as the gateway port and Yangpu as the international hub port. The stage of historical development.
Wang Lu, deputy governor of the Hainan Provincial People's Government, said in his speech that the construction of a free trade pilot zone in Hainan Island and the gradual exploration and steady promotion of the construction of a free trade port with Chinese characteristics are major national strategies that General Secretary Xi Jinping personally planned, personally deployed and personally promoted. It is a major measure to demonstrate China's determination to open to the outside world and actively promote economic globalization. The Yangpu-Singapore container route opened today will inevitably inject confidence into the development of Hainan's shipping market for international and domestic shipping companies, and will inevitably inject a steady stream of momentum into Hainan's integration into the new channel of international land and sea trade. In the future, Hainan Province will speed up the improvement of port infrastructure capacity, increase container shipping routes, effectively improve the comprehensive competitiveness of container ports, give full play to the advantages of free trade port policy, and build an important opening-up portal for the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean.