Before long money went to ships and ships made money.

Before long cities was springing and thriving up all because of ports.

Before long even the lifeless beach-soil was also a hot cake for shipbuilders.

Faced with the bubble boom of shipping industry, which seems to have been the cornucopia with no threshold or boundary and with infinite and inexhaustible treasure, a mix of people, regardless of their professional or industrial background, would earn millions of money once entering with capital and impulse; as manpower, source of goods, market, environment, etc. were not taken into account, it might be called “all the people of the world are brothers”, and “flourishing age” by proposing a toast to celebrate and being free to rejoice with wild excitement.

However, temporal has their own destiny. With a financial crisis broke out unexpectedly, shipping downturn came subsequently. Facts proved that just as blind pessimism, blind optimism is also industry's haunted nightmare. It dawned on us that the shipping industry is still in need of specialized basis, culture and technology. In short, shipping must return to the professional way.

To welcome the return of professional shipping era, "Shanghai Shipping Exchange Forum", the brand painstakingly nurtured by Shanghai Shipping Exchange, will meet both new and old friends again. "The professional era of shipping exchange" serves as the theme of new "Exchange Forum". The very top professionals with recognized achievements via hard work in shipping business and related fields are invited to share their professional ideas in this four-hour large international event with top quality, super concentration and high efficiency.

Nov.28, 2012