Shanghai Maritime University, located in Shanghai, features shipping, logistics and ocean, and has eight disciplines, including engineering, management, economics, law, literature, science, art and education. It is an interdisciplinary applied research university. It is a university jointly established by the Shanghai Municipal People's Government and the Ministry of Transport, and has won the certificate of China people's and China seafarers' and Norwegian education and training quality system.
The history of running Shanghai Maritime University can be traced back to the Department of Shipbuilding of Shanghai Polytechnic School (1909) in the late Qing Dynasty. 19 1 1 year, the Advanced Merchant Shipping School of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications was formally established. After being renamed, closed, adjusted and restored, it was successively Wusong Merchant Shipping School of the Ministry of Communications, Wusong Merchant Shipping College of the Ministry of Communications, National Chongqing Merchant Shipping College and National Wusong Merchant Shipping College. 1958, the Ministry of Communications rebuilt Shanghai Maritime College.