Shanghai Shipping Exchange (SSE), jointly founded by the Ministry of Transport and Shanghai Municipal People’s Government on November 28 1996 under the approval of the State Council, is the first state-level shipping exchange in China and the founding of the SSE represents a major step taken by the Chinese government to promote and invigorate China’s shipping market and match the construction of Shanghai International Shipping Center.

SSE is gifted with the basic functions as “to standardize the transactions, to adjust the freight rates, and to communicate information on the shipping market.” By performing these three functions and sticking to the principle of “Openness, Fairness and Justness”, SSE has scored fruitful achievements in information exchange and research, shipping operator credit evaluation system, shipping trading and notarization and services to port and shipping industry especially our member entities. SSE has produced widespread social and economic benefits and played an important role in regulating China’s shipping market, maintaining the shipping transaction order and propelling healthy development of the shipping market.

Membership system in SSE, including full members and temporary members. SSE provide the service of “Customs declaration and inspection”. There is office of Shanghai Customs in SSE, so order receiving, double checking, collecting fees, permitting through and so on. In according with above, there are also branches/office of the Shanghai commodity inspection, Animal ans plant inspection, health quarantine, port inspector and bank in SSE. The members of SSE are always increasing year by year, and it will be  play a more and more important role in the construction of Shanghai international shipping center.