Shanghai Port Services, International Comparisons And Its Countermeasures

As the biggest port of Chinese Mainland, the Industry of Shanghai Port Service has improved remarkably since 1990. Especially, the 21st century has met the rapidly developing era of Shanghai Port Service, eveiy facet of which is growing swiftly.However, it is well-known that the situation of competition among the ports around Northeast Asia is still obscure and that the competition for the International Shipping Centre of Northeast Asia among Shanghai Port, Busan Port and Kaohsiung Port is especially drastic. While rapidly improving the Industry of Port Service and making great efforts to face up to the competition and defiant from the surrounding ports of Northeast Asia, Shanghai Port is doomed to meet with some bottle-necks that restrict the development of port service. The main bottle-necks include the very small proportion of the international container transshipment, the conflict between the deficient ability of throughput and the fast increasing throughput of cargo, the undeveloped condition of collection and distribution, and etc. If the array of the negative factors restricting the Industry of Shanghai Port Service could be alleviated or eliminated, it will be very possible for Shanghai Port to win the contend for the International Shipping Centre of Northeast Asia.In this thesis, the first chapter introduces the condition of Shanghai economy, the situation and the relationship of the port service of Shanghai Port and its hinterland. By using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), the second chapter contrasts and analysises the main indexes of software and hardware of the port service of Shanghai, Busan and Kaohsiung. On the basis of the conclusion of the second chapter, the third chapter will expatiate the main advantages and disadvantages of Shanghai Port Service. The forth chapter will explore for the strategies and solutions to conquer the referred disadvantages of Shanghai Port.This thesis is to be helpful to the development of Shanghai Port Service and to provide some advice to make Shanghai Port as the International Shipping Centre of Northeast Asia by making the Shanghai Port Bureau know the situation of competition of Northeast Asia ports and Shanghai Port's disadvantages.Xu Yiqiao Directed by Professor Qu Linchi...