Evolution of Regional Port System in Modern Logistics
This paper aims to find a way to examine the developing process and causes of regional port system. Taking the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) port cluster as a studying case, nine main ports were considered. Following an overview of port development in the YRD, we analyzed the changing path of port market share. And with Hrishchman-Herfindahl Index (HHI), we investigated the concentration degree of the port system by vertical and horizontal comparison with the time series data during 1996-2006. The analysis reveals that there was a tendency towards de-concentration in the YRD port system during the research period, and this trend will be kept in short terms. Then we discussed four main dynamic factors: internal competition and cooperation and external economy & trade, management policies and modern logistics. To sum up, the concentration index analysis is effective, and it can be replicated to other regional port systems.
Port system Evolution Concentration index Dynamic factors Hub-and-Spoke
Yuan Zhao Peng Liu Zan Yang
College of Transportation and Logistics Dalian Maritime University 1 Linghai Road, Dalian, Liaoning, China 116026
国际会议
2007 IEEE International Conference on Automation and Lofistics
山东济南
英文
2007-08-18（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）