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Shipping companies in China — browse 20.5K records

Browse 20,494 shipping companies in China — registry-sourced from SAMR, scoped to NACE 50. Each record carries up to up to 500 firmographic attributes — from USCC and registered address to revenue, headcount and corporate group structure. The largest by revenue are China Merchants Group Limited ($62.1B), Sinotrans&CSC Holdings Co.,Ltd. ($18.4B) and China Merchants Steamship Co.,Ltd. ($8B).

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Largest shipping companies in China (2026)

The largest shipping companies in China by revenue are China Merchants Group Limited ($62.1B), Sinotrans&CSC Holdings Co.,Ltd. ($18.4B) and China Merchants Steamship Co.,Ltd. ($8B). The directory below ranks them — sort any column, or filter by sub-sector, company size and region.

Last updated June 2026.

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Every Chinese shipping companies record with all attributes, by API, bulk export or CRM enrichment.

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Inland freight water transport	Beijing	Zone A, 5th Floor, China Merchants Tower, China Merchants Center	186	$62.1B	1986	100000000005227	Corporation	1,346
Inland freight water transport	Beijing	Floor 19, Building 10, No.5 Courtyard, Anding Road, Chaoyang Dis	79	$18.4B	1984	100000000001700	Corporation	1,346
Inland freight water transport	Beijing	Building 10, No. 5 Anding Road, Chaoyang District, 1st to 22nd f	100	$8B	1992	100000000011455	Corporation	1,346
Inland freight water transport	Guangzhou	15-26/F, Guangzhou Ocean Plaza, No. 20, Huacheng Avenue, the Pea	5,548	$3.3B	1999	440101000002182	Joint venture	27
Inland freight water transport	Shanghai	20/F, Tian'an Center, No.338 Nanjing West Road	4,085	$2.4B	1984	310000400000470	Joint venture	105
Inland freight water transport	Zhuhai	No.9, Shihua East Road, Jida	63	$1.9B	1988	440400000172793	Corporation	38
Inland freight water transport	Dalian	No.1 Gangwan Street, Zhongshan District, Dalian	507	$1.8B	1951	210200000152848	Corporation	1,346
Inland freight water transport	Yingkou	No.1,Yinggang Rd,Bayuquan Dist.	3,472	$1.7B	2003	210800004061532	Corporation	55
Inland passenger water transport	Wuhan	25th, 27th, 28th and 29th Floor, Changhang Building, No. 69, Yan	104	$1.7B	1991	420100000150158	Corporation	1,346
Inland freight water transport	Dalian	Dayaowan Xingang Business Building, Free Trade Zone, Jinzhou Dis	10,561	$1.6B	2005	210200400039287	Joint venture	55
Inland freight water transport	Shanghai	No. 1188, Minsheng Road, Pudong New District	1,532	$1.6B	2010	310115001206402	Joint venture	51
Sea and coastal freight water transport	Danzhou	Room 403A, Xinpu Building, Jipu Road, Yangpu Economic Developmen	30	$1.3B	2005	460300000002680	Joint venture	13
Inland freight water transport	Quanzhou	No.868, North Citong Road, Fengze District	165	$1.1B	2003	350500100001535	Corporation	22
Inland freight water transport	Shanghai	15th Floor, Jinzhong Plaza, No. 98 Huaihai Middle Road	1,001	$991M	1983	310115000000199	Joint venture	189
Sea and coastal freight water transport	Shanghai	Room 217, West Zone, 2nd Floor, 707 Zhangyang Road, China (Shang	240	$869M	1998	310115000459818	Corporation	1,346
Inland freight water transport	Ningbo	No. 269 Ningdong Road, Yinzhou District, Global Shipping Plaza	856	$863M	1992	330200000036890	Joint venture	239
Inland freight water transport	Cangzhou	Office Building of Guoneng Huanghua Port Affairs Company, Shenhu	808	$761M	1998	130000000019494	Corporation	2,990
Inland freight water transport	Haikou	14th Floor, Port and Shipping Building, 157 Binhai Avenue	3,105	$723M	2002	460000000065733	Joint venture	554
Inland freight water transport	Guangzhou	Room No.1004-2, No.6 Xingsha Road, Nansha Street, Nansha Distric	566	$719M	2022	440110004753962	Corporation	27
Inland freight water transport	Fuzhou	42nd Floor, Shenglong Global Building, No. 23 Changting Street,	368	$628M	2009	350100100210816	Joint venture	41
Inland freight water transport	Shanghai	9F, Raffies City Changning Office Tower 3, No. 1193 Changning Ro	1,628	$606M	2001	310000400268507	Foreign company	2,670
Inland freight water transport	Beijing	Floor 10, Shuohuang Development Building, Haidian District	114	$564M	2001	440400000092710	Corporation	2,990
Sea and coastal passenger water transport	Nanjing	No.19, Jiangbian Road, Xiaguan District	1,873	$525M	1991	320100000003785	Corporation	203
Sea and coastal passenger water transport	Haikou	Floor 12, Haigang Building, No.96, Binhai Avenue, Xiuying Sub-Di	900	$520M	2021	460000003514622	Corporation	554
Inland freight water transport	Shanghai	No.1, Tonghui Rd., Luchaogang Town, Pudong New Area	1,019	$433M	2005	310115001662966	Corporation	189

This is a sample. The full database holds 20,494 Chinese shipping companies, each with every attribute in the dictionary below.

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Database overview

Shipping companies in China — database overview

Distributions across all 20,494 shipping companies in China — registry-sourced from SAMR and refreshed daily.

Company size (by employee band)

1–9
58%
10–49
34%
50–199
6%
200–999
1%
1,000+
0%

Sub-sector breakdown (NACE)

Inland freight water transport63%
Sea and coastal freight water transport17%
Inland passenger water transport11%
Sea and coastal passenger water transport9%

Regional distribution

Revenue (USD)

Less than $100K
5%
$100K – $1M
36%
$1M – $10M
58%
$10M – $100M
1%
$100M+
0%

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These distributions are computed from the full Chinese shipping companies database, not the sample above.

Data coverage

What data is available on shipping companies in China

China business database

Firmographics

Legal name, registered address, NACE sub-sector, legal form, founding year and website. Every record is keyed to its USCC — the stable SAMR identifier that survives name changes and rebrands, making it the most reliable CRM deduplication key for China data.

Points of interest

Each company is geocoded to GPS coordinates covering its registered seat and operating locations across China, with a precision level on every point — useful for territory planning and proximity targeting.

Tax IDs

Records carry the USCC and, where applicable, the VAT registration number, with a flag for when the two coincide. These are the cleanest match keys for enriching lists and cross-referencing against the national tax authority and your CRM.

Group structure

InfobelPRO resolves the corporate hierarchy — parent, subsidiaries and the size of the worldwide corporate family — so sales and compliance teams can see who controls an entity before engaging or onboarding it.

Financials

Annual revenue in local currency, EUR and USD, employee headcount and founding year, with multi-year history where filed. Figures are sourced from SAMR filings and carry an Actual-or-Modeled reliability flag.

Data dictionary

Every attribute in the Chinese shipping companies dataset

The full field catalogue behind each record. Contact data (email, phone, executives) is part of the licensed dataset but is never displayed on this page.

Identity

companyName: Registered legal name.
businessName: Trading / commercial name where it differs from the legal name.
tradeName: Additional registered trade name.
nationalID: USCC — the official SAMR company identifier.
nationalIDIsVat: Flag indicating whether the national ID doubles as the VAT number.

Location

addressStreet: Registered street address.
postCode: Postal code.
city: City / locality.
province: Region / province / county.
country: Country (ISO).
longitude / latitude: Geocoded coordinates of the location.
geoLevel: Precision level of the geocode.

Web

website: Primary corporate URL.
webDomain: Normalised root domain.
websiteStatusFlag: Live / dead / redirect status from the last crawl.
websiteCrawlDate: Date the website was last checked.

Activity

altInternationalCode01–06: Up to six NACE Rev. 2 activity codes plus labels.
internationalCode: US SIC code.
localCode: National activity code.
infobelCode: Proprietary Infobel activity code.

Size

employeesHere: Headcount at this location.
employeesTotal: Total headcount across the entity (with Actual / Modeled flag).

Financials

salesVolume: Annual revenue in local currency.
salesVolumeEuros: Annual revenue converted to EUR.
salesVolumeDollars: Annual revenue converted to USD — shown in the table.
currency: Reporting currency.
yearStarted: Year the company was founded.
financialHistory: Multi-year revenue history where filed.

Status & legal

statusCodeName: HQ, branch or single-location indicator.
legalStatusCodeDescription: Legal form (e.g. limited company / corporation).

Group structure

familyMembers: Number of entities in the worldwide corporate family.
subsidiaryIndicator: Whether the entity is a subsidiary.
parentLinkage: Link to the parent company.
domesticLinkage / globalLinkage: Domestic and global ownership links.
hierarchyCode: Position within the corporate hierarchy.

Source comparison

SAMR vs InfobelPRO

SAMR gives you legal registration data. InfobelPRO adds the commercial intelligence sales, marketing and compliance teams actually need.

Attribute	SAMRFree official registry	InfobelPRO
USCC	Yes	Yes — on 99.9% of records
Legal name & registered address	Yes	Yes
Company status (HQ / branch)	Yes	Yes — daily sync
NACE sub-sector classification	Yes	Yes — up to 6 codes
Annual revenue (local / EUR / USD)	Filings only	Yes — multi-currency
Employee count	No	Yes
Decision-maker contacts	No	Yes — licensed
Geocoded coordinates	No	Yes
Corporate group structure	Filings only	Yes — full hierarchy
API access	No	Yes — REST API
Bulk export (CSV / JSON / Parquet)	No	Yes
Update frequency	Periodic (filings)	Daily sync

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

By the revenue shown in the directory above, the largest shipping companies in China include China Merchants Group Limited ($62.1B), Sinotrans&CSC Holdings Co.,Ltd. ($18.4B) and China Merchants Steamship Co.,Ltd. ($8B). Sort the Revenue column or filter by sub-sector, size and region to explore the full ranking.

InfobelPRO lists 20,494 shipping companies registered in China, classified under NACE 50, sourced from SAMR. The directory covers all registered entities in scope, not a sampled subset.

Shipping companies in China are classified under NACE 50 — 4 sub-sector codes appear in this segment. Each record can carry up to six NACE Rev. 2 activity codes, plus a US SIC code and the national activity code.

Core firmographics come directly from SAMR and are refreshed daily — new incorporations, address changes and status updates flow through within 24 hours of publication. Revenue and employee figures track annual report filings and carry an Actual-or-Modeled reliability flag.

Yes. InfobelPRO combines registry-sourced firmographics with licensed contact data, processed under GDPR Article 6(1)(f) — legitimate interest. Individual opt-outs are honoured and compliance documentation is available on request.

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See all company directories in China, explore the full China business database In the US classification, related SIC codes include SIC 4481 — Deep Sea Transportation of Passengers, Except by Ferry, SIC 4412 — Deep Sea Foreign Transportation of Freight and SIC 4482 — Ferries. The closest NAICS industry is NAICS 48311 — Deep Sea, Coastal, and Great Lakes Water Transportation, or see how China fits into the wider Asia business database.