Marine transportation is realized by the practice of navigation activities, whose foundation is shipbuilding, navigation technology and seafarers who master the technology. Shipbuilding industry is a comprehensive industry, and its development can promote the development of iron and steel industry, Marine equipment industry, electronic instrument and meter industry, and promote the improvement of the industrial structure of the whole country. Our country by the original ship importing country, in recent years gradually became the ship exporting country, and is stepping into the ship exporting country's ranks.
Due to the continuous development of navigation technology in China, the dispatching of seafarers has attracted the attention of all countries in the world. With the development of Marine transportation industry, China's ocean shipping fleet has been ranked among the top 10 in the world, which provides conditions for the large-scale ship-breaking industry in the future. It not only provides cheap raw materials, energy saving and consumption of imported ore for the smelting of Steel works in China, but also enables the export of scrap steel. Thus it can be seen that the development of Marine transportation can not only improve the national industrial structure, but also improve the commodity structure in international trade.