Research On The Effect Of A FTA To Shipping Industry In ShangHai

From the international point of view, one of the major differences between Shanghai and Hong Kong, Singapore, Rotterdam and other world-class international shipping center is the lack of an efficient free port policy or free trade area. Adopting a policy of free trade zone in Shanghai will strengthen its international logistics, trade, processing, financial services, and other functions, it can also increase the charm of Shanghai for international transit, expand the transit trade, and improve the international status of Shanghai. It plays an important role in the development of Shanghai shipping industry.After nearly40years of development, free trade area has spread more than100countries and territories worldwide. Especially in the developing countries, they attach great importance to the construction of free trade area. Shanghai free trade zone will provide greater openness and preferential policies for the shipping industry development, and will simplify formalities, reduce shipping costs, and realize the territory of the commissioner of policies. So it is good for attracting foreign investment, expanding employment, promoting regional economic development and increasing international trade, etc.This paper is on the basis of summarizing the domestic and foreign research achievements on free trade area and combining with the current situation of the development of Shanghai shipping industry, as well as the actual situation of Shanghai free trade policy. From the basics we analyze the factors that the establishment of free trade zone will affect the development of shipping industry in Shanghai. Given the coverage of the shipping industry and related industries is very complex, and the influence of the free trade area has too many uncertain factors, this paper set up index system with the selected representative seven indicators o and twenty secondary indexes. By way of questionnaires we collect the relevant data, we use analytic hierarchy process to calculate the weight. Then it is concluded that the establishment of Shanghai free trade zone is mostly affected by the shipping based trade, followed by shipping information environment, and then is the basic index shipping financial markets, the shipping market and port infrastructure, human resources, environment, government support. And then we use the index system into fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method, analyzed the development situation of Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore shipping industry. Finally, according to the evaluation results, we put forward the measures to improve Shanghai shipping industry.