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China's higher maritime education originated in Shanghai. In 1909, the Shipping Department of Shanghai Higher Industrial School (Nanyang College) of the Ministry of Posts and Communications in the late Qing Dynasty created a precedent for higher maritime education in my country. Wusong Merchant Shipping School was established in 1912, and was renamed Wusong Merchant Shipping School in 1933. In 1959, the Ministry of Communications established the Shanghai Maritime Institute in Shanghai. In 2004, it was renamed Shanghai Maritime University with the approval of the Ministry of Education. In order to better serve the construction of Shanghai International Shipping Center and the development of the national shipping industry, in accordance with Shanghai's university layout structure adjustment plan, in 2008, the main body of Shanghai Maritime University moved to Lingang New City (now Lingang New Area of Shanghai Free Trade Zone). In 2019, the school successfully held a series of activities for the 110th anniversary of the school.
Shanghai Maritime University is a multidisciplinary university featuring shipping, logistics, and oceanography, with 7 disciplines including engineering, management, economics, law, literature, science, and art. In 2008, the Shanghai Municipal People's Government and the Ministry of Transport signed an agreement to jointly build Shanghai Maritime University.
The school has 3 post-doctoral research stations (transportation engineering, electrical engineering, management science and engineering), 4 first-level discipline doctoral programs (transportation engineering, management science engineering, ship and ocean engineering, electrical engineering), 17 Second-level doctoral programs, 16 first-level discipline master's degree authorization points, 63 second-level discipline master's degree authorization points, 13 professional degree authorization categories, and 49 undergraduate majors. It has 16 provincial and ministerial key research bases. There is 1 national key (cultivation) discipline, 1 Shanghai peak discipline, 2 Shanghai plateau disciplines, and 9 ministerial and municipal key disciplines. Engineering disciplines are among the top 1% of ESI in the world, and port and shipping logistics disciplines remain the world's leading discipline. 5 national-level characteristic majors, 1 national-level comprehensive reform pilot major, 13 national-level first-class undergraduate major construction sites, 6 majors under the Ministry of Education's outstanding engineer education and training program, and 17 Shanghai undergraduate education highlands. There are 2 national-level experimental teaching demonstration centers, 2 national-level virtual simulation experimental teaching demonstration centers, 5 national-level practical teaching demonstration centers, and 1 national demonstration engineering professional degree postgraduate joint training base. There is a training center on the water, with 48,000 tons of bulk cargo teaching practice ship "Yu Ming".
In the 2004 Ministry of Education's undergraduate teaching work assessment and 2006 Ministry of Education's English majors teaching assessment was excellent. In 2019, the total annual scientific and technological funding reached 400 million yuan, and won a number of national-level scientific research projects and scientific and technological progress awards above the ministry and city level.
Implementation of the school-school two-level management system, and now has the Merchant Shipping School, the School of Transportation, the School of Economics and Management (the Asian Cruise School), the School of Logistics Engineering (the Sino-Dutch School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering), the School of Law, the School of Information Engineering, the School of Foreign Languages, School of Marine Science and Engineering, School of Arts and Sciences (with Marxist School), Xu Beihong School of Art, Research Institute of Logistics Science and Engineering, Shanghai Advanced International Shipping School and other secondary schools. Among the more than 26,600 students, there are nearly 16,000 undergraduates, more than 7,200 postgraduates of various types, and more than 600 international students. Among the more than 1,300 full-time teachers, there are more than 190 professors. The school is committed to cultivating professional talents at all levels and various types required by the national shipping industry. It has sent more than 170,000 graduates to port and shipping enterprises and government departments across the country, and is known as the "cradle of senior shipping talents."
The school established China (Shanghai) Free Trade Zone Supply Chain Research Institute and Shanghai Advanced International Shipping Institute in 2013. China (Shanghai) Free Trade Zone Supply Chain Research Institute organically integrates free trade zone construction with supply chain research to improve the level of industrial chain construction in the free trade zone, promote the transformation and development of free trade zone goods trade to service trade, and promote government supervision Change of functions. Shanghai Advanced International Shipping Institute adopts an internationally advanced business school operation model, shares resources with outstanding educational institutions around the world, strives to build a leading domestic and internationally renowned shipping finance education brand, and build an influential shipping high-end talent export base.
In 2008, more than 20 units including the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, Shanghai Urban-Rural Development and Transportation Commission, Shanghai Maritime University, and the People's Government of Hongkou District jointly initiated the establishment of the Shanghai International Shipping Research Center. The center is linked to Shanghai Maritime University. It is a research and consulting institution for the development of the international shipping industry. It provides decision-making consulting and information services for the government, domestic and foreign enterprises and shipping organizations. It is one of the first "university knowledge service platforms" established by the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission. . In 2014, the Municipal Education Commission listed the platform as the "Shanghai Collaborative Innovation Center".
The school has established inter-school exchanges and cooperative relations with more than 100 sister universities overseas, and carried out teacher exchanges, cooperative school running, cooperative scientific research, student exchanges, etc. It has established close ties with internationally renowned shipping organizations/institutions such as the United Nations International Maritime Organization, the Baltic International Shipping Association, and Det Norske Veritas. Since 2010, an "international class" has been opened, inviting students from maritime colleges and universities in the United States, South Korea, Poland, Russia, Germany and other countries to study "navigation technology" and "shipping management" and other majors. In 2011, approved by the Ministry of Education, the school cooperated with the Maritime University of Central and West Africa in Ghana to organize the "logistics management" undergraduate education program, and began to recruit students in Africa. This is the first overseas school program for a local university in Shanghai to issue a Chinese university undergraduate diploma. . In 2012, the school was approved by the Ministry of Education to formally become a "University for International Students Accepting Chinese Government Scholarships".