Shipping networks witnessed a surge of interest from scholars in recent years. This chapter proposes a systematic and critical review of more than 200 journal articles on the matter published since 2007. It reveals that while the corpus is extremely diverse in terms of disciplinary background, research themes, and analytical methods, a majority of studies focus on topology, from a complex network perspective. Despite the important share of journals related with geography, economics, and management, the analysis of shipping networks remains in isolation from major environmental, territorial, and industry issues. A case study of the global financial crisis (2008–2009) is proposed to test the existence of regularities in its impact on the maritime network at different scales.