Port Logistics Services - On The Construction Of Logistics Center In Shanghai Port

In the modern views of international shipping and global logistics, a port is not only the place where goods are loaded or unloaded, but also an integrated service platform on which various services are supplied to the floating goods imported or exported. The important significance of a port on the whole chain of international trading, leads to the appearance, further development and prosperity of Port Logistics. The various services of port logistics includes: warehousing, forwarding, consolidation & de-consolidation, loading & discharging, packing & unpacking, inner-land transportation, JIT delivery, and related information services. In China, logistics has been regarded as one of the main industries of the central government and many local governments recently. Md port logistics is one of the supported industries to the port cities, such as Shanghai, Shenzhen, Tianjin, Dalian and Ningbo. Therefore, some key factors to the development of port logistics, such as policies, regulations, the situations of hinterland economics, and the auxiliary services in port, are covered in the essay. As Shanghai Port is the largest port in China, to discuss how to setup and develop the port logistics (or distribution) centres in Shanghai, will make sense to other ports. So one of the important chapters in the essay is dedicated to the construction of Shanghai port logistics (or distribution) centres, in which the present situations of Shanghai Port, the planning of logistics (or distribution) centres, the business tendencies and how to facilitate the logistics in Shanghai are covered. Guo Jianqiang (Industry Economics) Directed by: Mr. Qu Linchi...