New report reveals China’s key strengths across green shipping corridor building blocks

A new report from the Global Maritime Forum reveals that China has quickly become a global leader in green shipping corridors, with nearly one-fifth of the world’s corridor initiatives connecting to a Chinese port.

Launched today at the Global Maritime Forum’s Annual Summit 2026 in Shanghai, ‘Green shipping corridors: How China is re-energising the global movement’ measures China’s progress against the four key building blocks considered crucial to successfully starting up a green corridor. The report finds that China is one of the strongest actors globally in this space, holding strategic advantages in three of the four building blocks.

“The Global Maritime Forum has been measuring global progress on green corridors since 2022, when China was involved in three announced initiatives—now, that number has risen to more than 20,” said Jesse Fahnestock, director of decarbonisation at the Global Maritime Forum. “China’s advancements on green fuel development and efforts around international collaboration could be success factors for these initiatives.”

First introduced in a 2021 report for the Getting to Zero Coalition, the concept of the four building blocks remains a useful tool for benchmarking corridor viability:

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