The shipping industry is known for providing transport service in terms of deploying vessels and accessing ports, making shipping one of the network-based services. From the perspective of traditional as well as neo-economics, shipping is assumed to pursue profit maximization subject to scarce resources, e.g. capital, assets, seafarers, or binding constraints derived from schedules, etc. Players could be any of the following: linkage operators, e.g. liner shipping carriers, port operators, freight forwarders, customs, hinterland haulage carriers, inland navigation carriers, market regulators, etc. Taking into account interdependencies and inter-relations, game theory provides a meaningful way to model and analyze behaviors of the involved players. In this paper we provide a survey on game theoretical approaches within the shipping industry.