It is all party of the city's 14th Five-Year Plan, which sets a series of goals to enhance its service level of multimodal transport with the proportion of water-to-water transfer of containers reaching no lower than 52 per cent and the number of marine-to-rail transfers reaching at least 650,000 TEU.

According to the plan, the city's annual container throughput will reach at least 47 million TEU by 2025; the annual throughput of air passenger travel will reach at least 130 million; while the annual throughput of cargo ships will reach 4.1 million tons or above.

According to the Xinhua-Baltic International Shipping Centre Index (2020), Shanghai's international influence has been increasing steadily as the city was ranked the world's third in the international shipping center ranking