航运金融作为连接承担超过90%的国际贸易运输量的航运业与其需求庞大、日益复杂的国际化金融业的枢纽性服务,在国际航运建设和国际金融建设中发挥着重要的枢纽作用和战略意义。但是国内外航运金融的发展极为不平衡,呈现出主导型的发达国家航运金融发展的格局和服务能力匹配不足的中国航运金融发展现状。因此,有必要就两者之间进行深入比较研究,以确立今后我国航运金融的发展方向。
Shipping finance as the connection from the shipping industry to the financial industry which plays an important role and has a strategic significance. However, the developments of domestic and international shipping finance are extremely uneven, and it led the developed countries shipping pattern has a dominant position and china's shipping finance has insufficient matching capacities. Therefore, it is necessary to have a deep comparative study in order to establish the future development direction of the china's shipping finance.