 shanghai maritime university (smu; , ååä¸æµ·æµ·è¿å­¦é¢, å´æ·åè¹å­¦æ ¡) is a public university in shanghai, people's republic of china. shanghai maritime university is a multidisciplinary university with 6 fields of study: engineering, management, economics, literature, science and law. the university is one of the best chinese universities for specialisation in maritime, shipping and transport education. == history == *1909: shanghai industrial college, with the shipping section *1911: the merchant marine college under the ministry of post and transport, with the navigation section *1912: wosong merchant marine school, with the navigation section *1929: wosong merchant marine college under the ministry of transport, with the navigation section *1930: wosong merchant marine college, with the marine engineering section added. *1939: chongqing national merchant marine college, with the ship building section added to the previous two. *1943: the above college was incorporated into chongqing national university of transport, keeping the sections of navigation and marine engineering, and changing the ship building section to the ship-building engineering department. thumb|200px|left|the east gate of old campus *1946: wosong national merchant marine college, with the sections of navigation and marine engineering *1948: added to that college was the telecommunications section, offering short-term advanced training. *1950: with the merging of the above college and the shipping management department of jiaotong university, the shanghai nautical college emerged, offering the marine navigation speciality in the navigation department, the marine engineering specialty in the marine engineering department, and the radio communication specialty at the associate-baccalaureate level. *1951: added to the shanghai nautical college was the harbor engineering department, offering the specialties of waterway transportation and port management. *1953: the merging of the shanghai nautical college and the northeast navigation college. *1958: the decision of the ministry of communications to restore maritime education in shanghai and establish shanghai maritime university. *1959: the founding of shanghai maritime university. ==present== smu was established by the ministry of communications in 1959. since 2000, smu has been mainly admi
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