The Position And Status Of Tianjin Port Within The Bohai Bay Port Cluster

The eastern coastal part of China has become the most developed economy band of the nation, which makes it strategically important to China's development. During the development of coastal districts of China, ocean ports play a very important role and grow up to three port clusters including the Yangtze Delta with Shanghai as the center, the Zhujiang River Delta with Shenzhen as the center, but the Bohai bay port cluster without center. Competition between the main Ports within the Bohai bay port cluster is getting increasingly violent. The three ports have made the unremitting effort aim to achieve the leading port within regional shipping center. But the current situation is they reaching just about the same status in this competition, because the strength disparity of them is not all obvious, and the hinterlands, geographical position, natural conditions, structure of principal commodity both have the strength and weakness.Tianjin port, as a big international port of North China, is to become an important regional shipping center of north China in recent years. Now, it is very meaningful to seek the approaches to upgrade Tianjin port's position and status by analyzing its advantages, weakness, opportunities and threat during the competition with its rivals among the north port cluster. The paper will adopt the means of quantitative analysis and qualitative analysis together to study each problem. Each problem is researched in ways as follows:1. Analysis the corresponding theory2. Combine the domestic and international port layout theories with practice to analyze3. To get the corresponding conclusion and suggestionFirstly, this thesis analyzes the foreign port's management pattern and policy, development experience, and the position and status of port in countries. For the aim of the enlightenment and the instruction function to enhance the Tianjin port competitive ability, to improve the position and status of Tianjin port within The Bohai bay port cluster as well as Forecasts the development future of Tianjin Port.