Abstract: Based on the world’s top 10 container liner companies’ route data, maritime transport links between the 164 ports along the Maritime Silk Road was collected. With the help of the whole structure and evaluation index of the nodes in network, the topological structure and spatial pattern of the Maritime Silk Road shipping network was analyzed. The results show that: “21st Century Maritime Silk Road” shipping network as a whole exhibits small-world and scale-free network characteristics; degree distribution of the nodes shows large differences in space; centrality shows a significant rank-size decreasing trend and stratification; Singapore has the highest centrality in the network, which is absolutely the core in the Maritime Silk Road shipping network; from the degree centrality and closeness centrality analysis, the top 15 ports are basically the same, only a slight difference in sequence; the ports with highest values of three kinds of centralities mostly distributed in the East and West Asia and ASEAN region.