Maritime Transport Services belong to the item of Transport Service in service trade, and the liberation of Maritime Transport Services is one of the important topics of discussion in multilateral negotiation of service trade.

Appraisal index system construction for international competitiveness of shipping service industry;

China s WTO entry makes import and export trade of China increase a lot but China s maritime transportation service trade law system has many problems such as insufficient support of national maritime transportation enterprises,low legal effect and conflicts in its contents and so on and has legislative vacuum which is not helpful to foreign trade development.