Shanghai will host a top international shipping forum next week to boost the global shipping industry and enhance international cooperation, both of which have been greatly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The North Bund Forum will be held along the Huangpu River waterfront in Hongkou District between November 3 and 5 with themes of "openness and tolerance, innovation and reform, cooperation and mutual benefit," the city government announced on Tuesday.

The main forum will invite officials from China's Ministry of Transport, the Shanghai government and the United Nations as well as international maritime and civil aviation organizations along with famous economists to make speeches, said Zhang Wei, vice mayor of Shanghai.