As a traditional industry with both ancient and modern，high-tech and heavy assets，shipping is facing the challenge of emerging technologies such as big data and artificial intelligence with the application and development of information technology Internet.It is not only an important issue in shipping industry，but also of great significance to build a socialist country to solve how to deal with the influence of big data，and develop efficient and intelligent shipping industry by using big data.The shipping industry includes the core production departments such as ship transportation enterprises and port terminals，as well as auxiliary business departments such as ship agent，freight agent，warehousing and logistics，and supervision service departments.All business data of the shipping core business，auxiliary production，supervision services，etc.，of production information，regulatory service，and marine environment etc.forms big data of the shipping.The paper briefly analyzes the classification and characteristics of the big data of shipping，and introduces the development and application status of big data of shipping from the different perspectives of shipping companies，supervision authorities，third-party service enterprises，e-commerce platforms，as well as current problems and challenges. Also，the report analyzes and predicts the trend of big data of shipping in the future.