In this report commissioned by Nor-Shipping and Oslo Maritime Network, Menon ranks the leading maritime capitals of the world.

The report benchmarks the leading maritime cities in four areas; shipping, maritime finance, maritime law and insurance, and maritime technology and competence. The 12 cities are assessed both by objective measures that are widely used and renowned in the industry, and by industry experts from all continents. Summing up all the indicators of the study, Singapore comes out as the leading maritime city of the world, followed by Oslo, London, Hamburg and Hong Kong. Oslo is no. 1 in terms of both shipowners and shipping operation, but is beaten by Singapore on both maritime law and insurance and on maritime technology and competence. London is regarded as the leading maritime law and insurance city, but comes out as no. 9 on shipping.