Industrial Cluster Circum-Bohai Sea Port Logistics Layout Optimization Research

Industrial cluster is an industrial phenomenon in which related industrial activities concentrate geographically or concentrate in a specific location.As a quite distinctive form of current economic organization, the enterprises within the clusters can earn the superiority of Scale economy and Scope Economy through interactive cooperation and communication, and can also produce a strong spillover effect, promote economic development within a region or even a nation. In the eastern coastal areas of China, many industrial clusters are booming, such as textile clusters, car manufacturing clusters, iron and steel industry clusters, home appliances clusters, medicine and other industry clusters and so on.Logistics industry is a comprehensive service industry that integrates transporting, warehousing, freight transportation and information industry. It is an important part of a nation's economy, because industry involves wide ranges of industries, employs large number of employee and consequently plays an important role in the industrial structure adjustment and economic development mode transformation and the enhancement of national economy competitiveness. On March 10th,2009, the State Council issued "logistics industry restructuring and revitalization plan", in which modern logistics industry became one of the ten industries to be supported by the nation. As a result the logistics industry has risen to a strategic position in China economic development.Currently, industrial clusters have become the key to enhance regional industrial competitiveness and economic vitality. The logistics industry can bring a huge benefit for the cluster companies through reducing the cost and capital input, raising competitive advantages and the ability to gain information, so the cluster companies can improve their business planning, reduce risks uncertainties. On the other hand, industrial clusters can provide development space for logistics. There is a kind of synergetic relationship between industrial clusters and logistics system.With the growth of foreign trade, the port transportation has been rapidly developed, which gave birth to the port logistics industry. China has 18,000 km coastline,110,000 km inland waterway, undertakes 9% of the domestic trade and transport and 85%of the foreign goods transportation, and there are more than 1,460 commercial ports along the coasts 1. Port transportation and logistics development are in a complementary, mutually reinforcing relationship. Logistics involves integrated transportation and the best meeting point of the foreign trade goods logistics is the port. Large number of coastal ports and river ports are the center and hub of highway and railway and water way transportation. Ports are a very important part of logistics chain, the development of logistics is inseparable from the port services, and the rise and development of logistics has created new opportunities and new requirements for the further development of the port.As an important node in an irreplaceable logistics chain, ports have promoted the formation of the port logistics industry cluster because of its unique natural endowment features. Logistics industry is not developed isolated, but on the basis of industrial clusters. Through the synergistic effect industrial clusters have shown great competitive advantages, which is drawing more and more attention. Therefore, how to effectively combine the development of industry cluster and the rise of logistics industry to propose a layout optimization strategy of port logistics to adapt to the development requirements of the Bohai economic region thus becomes the issue to be studied and explored in this article. In a context where the logistics industry is completely open in China, and the industry clusters around Bohai are growing by the day, on a theoretical base to study the industrial cluster theory, the formation mechanism and competitive advantages of the port logistics, and the synergic development between logistics t and industrial clusters this in-depth article makes a thorough analysis on the development survey of industrial clusters and port logistics circum-Bohai sea, and further analyzes the problems and advantages to develop port logistics circum-Bohai sea, and then, evaluates and classifies port logistic development through Principal Component Cluster Analysis method to provide the basis for layout optimization of port logistics. Finally, according to the above theory and the industry development trends circum-Bohai sea and logistics market demand analysis, this article proposes the optimization strategy on circum-Bohai sea port logistics layout.