Xinhua Silk Road: Shanghai partners with overseas ports to build more green shipping corridors

BEIJING, Oct. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- When 2025 North Bund Forum opened Sunday, Shanghai caught much attention from global attendees with its endeavors to build more green shipping corridors with overseas partners.

Currently, the green shipping corridors built together with several European and American ports are advancing intensive application of emission-reduction technologies and multiple-party participation to establish a testing field for global shipping industry transformation.

For instance, Shanghai port is co-founding a green ro-ro shipping corridor together with port of Barcelona in Spain and port of Antwerp-Bruges in Belgium. Other Chinese ports are building similar green shipping corridors with German and French ports.

After a year-long operation, the "Shanghai-Hamburg green shipping corridor" unveiled in 2024, has forged ahead in sustainable development.

Apart from the regular shore power service, Shanghai port's container berths can now refuel LNG and green methanol, while Hamburg port's berths with 100 percent green shore power service plans to start methanol injection service this year, ready to co-craft an emission-reduction model for Eurasian shipping routes.

Between ports of Shanghai and Hamburg, two regular shipping lines that meet requirements of the IMO carbon intensity indicator have been operated by COSCO Shipping Lines to proactively practice low-carbon shipping.

Against the backdrop of increasingly trending low-carbon development philosophy, more upstream and downstream institutions joined construction of the green shipping corridor, including Det Norske Veritas, China Classification Society, and Maritime Technology Cooperation Center, Asia.

Prior to the corridor, another one between Shanghai port and ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach that kicked off in 2022 made new progress in the past year, including 100-percent shore power coverage, deployment of ships with full life-circle low-carbon emission and more injection services of clean marine fuels.

At the forum, an international green shipping corridor cooperation initiative was released, proposing to foster low-carbon vessel development, build zero-carbon ports, improve green fuel supply and share related best practices to jointly establish the "transoceanic zero-carbon bridges".

Shanghai Municipal Transportation Commission and the operator of Melbourne port also issued a joint green shipping corridor initiative, vowing to focus on decarbonization transformation and ecology friendly practices such as use of clean technology and renewable resources to maximumly cut the ecological footprint of shipping activities.

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Xinhua Silk Road: Shanghai partners with overseas ports to build more green shipping corridors

Code Name: BlueSpot, a Go AI, is disclosed ahead of the handicap-match events in the 10th-anniversary year of the historic AlphaGo–Lee Sedol match.

NEW YORK, Jan. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Issued by Code Name: BlueSpot Operations

Code Name: BlueSpot, the Go AI that embodies novel technology, is introduced today at the dawn of the 10th-anniversary year of the historic AlphaGo–Lee Sedol match.

As the milestone year begins to unfold, planning is underway for a Handicap-Adjustment Series as the main event—a series of public matches between BlueSpot and top-tier professional Go players. The intent is straightforward: to offer a clear perspective on the current discourse around AI—particularly the "AI bubble" narrative and its underlying assumptions—and to place demonstrable performance above private, unverifiable claims.

As a preliminary step, an Open Test—not a closed evaluation—in handicap-adjustment format is being prepared for the first half of 2026 (targeting March). It will be live-streamed online, feature multiple professional players drawn from a disclosed ranking range, and proceed under official refereeing. The venue will be announced in late January; final venue arrangements are underway across a small set of East Asian host locations.

BlueSpot is presented at this stage only as a code name. Further details will be disclosed with the main event. For the latest updates, visit https://codenamebluespot.com (Short link: https://cblue.spot).

 

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10 Years Since AlphaGo, Code Name: BlueSpot Disclosed Ahead of Handicap-Match Events