本文利用了较多中外原始文献,对鸦片战争后20年间澳门港口海上贸易做了具体的考察。虽然这些数据还不够全面和系统,但足以揭示这样的事实,即在鸦片战争后的近20年间,除开短暂的挫折,进出澳门港口的各类商船的数量和吨位保持着较高的数位,澳门港口的商业活动并没有一落千丈。不仅如此,还有新的贸易力量和船型加入到港口的贸易队伍,船舶的国籍结构亦更加开放,并开拓了新的航运贸易区域,从而为19世纪60年代以后的进一步发展奠定了基础。 This article makes use of more original Chinese and foreign literatures, and makes a detailed inspection of the maritime trade in Macao Ports during the two decades after the Opium War. Although these data are not comprehensive and systematic, they are enough to reveal the fact that the number and tonnage of merchant vessels entering and leaving Macao ports kept a relatively high number except for a brief setback in the nearly two decades after the Opium War. Macau, The port’s commercial activity has not plummeted. Not only that, but also new trade forces and ship types joined the trading team at the port. The ship’s nationality structure was also more open and a new shipping trade area was opened up, laying the foundation for further development after the 1860s.