Ship broking is an activity which forms part of the international shipping industry.
Shipbrokers are specialist intermediaries working between Owners and Traders.
Larger broking firms have separate departments cover more than one discipline as dry cargo, chartering, tanker chartering, containers, sale & purchase and sometimes also demolition sales and Research.
Major ship broking centres include Geneva, London, Oslo, Piraeus, Geneva, New York, Houston, Hamburg, Copenhagen, Singapore, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Shanghai.