Study On Site Selection Of The Deep-Water Ports In River-Coastal-Port Cities

Port site selection is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary research, playing an essential role in regional planning and urban overall planning of coastal areas. As the international shipping industry develops rapidly, such as "cargos containerization", "large-scale ships", etc. it calls for constructing more and better deep-water ports in river-costal-port cities, hence site selection of the deep-water ports has become a hot issue in economic and social development in river-costal-port cities. Up to now, the study and practice on site selection of Fuzhou's deep-water port have evident shortcomings in both the original 8 contrast-select plans and the present "four ports in one city" plan.What involves in the site selection of a port is not only to consider the natural, technological and economic conditions of the port site, but also to compare with regional economic geography methods, make selection considering regional and even urban effects. Based on this principle, mainly from the perspective of the geography subject, this paper has analyzed the features of forming and developing the river-costal-port cities, generalized the important modes of constructing deep-water ports in river-costal-port cities domestic and abroad. It has also probed into the regional evolution and development of Fuzhou Port, and examined the process of selecting the site of its deep-water port. Furthermore, the paper emphasizes the problems existing in present plan, and put forward a new plan for Dongluo island-port near the land, including its overall planning, designing and the condition study of site selection. The author hopes that as a useful attempt, this paper can provide some new ideas about selecting the site of deep-water port now being made in Fuzhou.