The Research On Development Strategy Of Ningbo Port's Container Transportation

Container transportation is gradually being accepted by people and becoming the most important way of transportation in international trade because of its convenience, shortcut, damage-reducing, punctuality and so on. China has become a strong country on the number of container fleets and the throughput of container termianls.Ningbo port is among the four deep water ports of our country, resort to its better natural and social coditions, it makes a great progress on container transportation. Ningbo port has got a container throughput of 7 million TEU, its container lines has reached to 163 and the number of flights per month has got to 728. The increasing throughput uncovers a series of problem.This dissertation has six chapters. The first chapter is a prolegomenon, it introduces the background, meaning, researching route and meathod of this paper. The second chapter mainly introduces the developing trend of container transportation and container terminals of China as well as the world. The third chapter tells the natural conditions and social enviroment of Ningbo port. The forth chapter studies the Ningbo port's strengthes, weaknesses, opportunities and threats on SWOT, which provide the sixth chapter with qualitative accordings. The fifth chapter uses the grey combination model to forecast the container throughput of ningbo port untill 2010. The sixth chapter is the development strategy of container transportation of Ningbo port, including strategy object, strategy choice, stragety measures.China, especialy the Yangzi river triangle delta territory, has a very good trend of economic development, it dffers a huge room for international shipping market. " The 11th five year " is very crucial to Ningbo port, if we can exactly understand the situation, grasp the opportunities, there will be a better way to go. My dissertation is just working on this popurse, and it will help Ningbo port to get a greater success.