Dalian Port Service Composition And Countermeasures

Port service industry plays an important role to the modern port city. It is not only the main factor influencing the port efficiency and port competitiveness, but also a channel through which the port accelerates regional economy. As a window to the world market, the coastal ports are developing very fast since China's reform and opening to the world. Port constructions accelerate day by day, and many constructions are made or being effected. Comparing to the large investment made on the basic infrastructures these years, the port service is relatively lagged, while the theoretical study on this field is quite rare.Dalian is an important port and trade center in the north. Dalian proposed the goal which is called making good use of the port to drive the city economy, and aimed to be the north-eastern Asia international shipping center. The port develops rapidly, and by the year 2006, throughput of commodity reached 200 million tons and throughput of container reached 3.21 million TEU, due to the above factors. But the port service of Dalian is in a leading position in the main land, but fall behind to the developed ports at home and aboard. How to make up the gap between Dalian ports and foreign ports and to develop Chinese port service is an urgent task for us. On the basis of perfecting and establishing the basic theory of port service industry, I investigated the situation of Dalian port and made some practical proposal and countermeasures.There are five parts in this thesis:In the first part, I point out the necessity of developing port service industry, and discuss the reality sense to Dalian.The second part is theory summarize. Base on the connotation and conception of port service industry, I analyze the constitution of port service industry and make a division systematically. And then summarize and interpret relative theories.In the third part, by using AHP, establish the evaluation indicator system. And using this system I make an empirical analysis to Dalian, Qingdao, Tianjin, Shanghai and Fushan. According to the result, I analyze the main problem in port service industry of Dalian. The conclusion of this part provides an evidence for suggestion.By comparing the develop model of London, Rotterdam, Hong Kong, we find some useful experiences and inspirations in the forth part.The main body of this article is the fifth part. I introduce some countermeasures to develop port service industry. On the basis of constitute of port service industry, firstly, I describe the strategy area of port service industry, then propose the concrete practical methods from the views of port shipping service, information service, maritime service, support service, and logistic service.The innovation of this article:(1) Try to make a definition and division to port service industry. Only in the early 1980s, this area attracts some scholars' attention, but there is still no clear definition of port service industry. In this article, referring the definition of other country, and the situation of our country, I make a definition of port service industry.(2) Against every part of port service industry, propose the specific measures. In the past, most of countermeasures focus on the problem of coastal city development. This article makes a more comprehensive elaboration from ship assembling and disassembling service, information service, maritime service, support service, and logistic service.