Index listing

Singapore has topped the 2019 Xinhua-Baltic International Shipping Centre Development Index for the sixth year running. The index provides an independent ranking of the performance of the world’s largest cities that offer port and shipping business services. In the six years of this report, there has been a general rise in the performance of Asian and Middle Eastern locations. The first report in 2014 included three European locations in the top five; in 2019 only London remains. The top five shipping centres are Singapore, Hong Kong, London, Shanghai and Dubai.