Abstract 21 century was called the "Maritime Century" by the United Nations. Maritime has become a major area of international competition. Recently, the focus of world shipping has transferred to Asia, especially to China. In 2010, the container throughout of Shanghai port reached 29.05 million TEUs and the cargo throughout reached 650 million tons. Both of the numbers are the biggest in the world. But in order to build the international shipping center, Shanghai should be the global maritime knowledge hub. This paper summarizes the content and features of the global maritime knowledge hub. The global maritime knowledge hub is based on research and invention, through venture capital and investment, combining the ocean, knowledge and technology into creating high value shipping services. The global maritime knowledge hub is a cradle of marine knowledge, a collecting and distributing center of marine knowledge and the world center of marine rules. London is good at high-end maritime services such as ship finance, ship broking and insurance which are based on maritime knowledge. Norway wants to develop marine researches because its marine engineering industrial basement is very excellent. Singapore wants to promote the high-end maritime services and marine researches. The three port-cities choose different models because their basements are different. Then analyzes the basement and feasibility of Shanghai to be the global maritime knowledge hub. Recently, Shanghai has paid more emphasis to high-end maritime services and some ship finance, ship broking and insurance institutions were founded. Many experts argued Shanghai should learn from London, but this paper believes Shanghai should learn from Singapore. Shanghai is in the process development of International Shipping Center, in addition to learn the London model to develop the shipping finance, shipping insurance and so on, and also should develop the marine research because Shanghai has a strong manufacturing base and technological innovation capacity.
2012, Vol. 27 
