Analysis And Evaluation On The Feasibility Of Dalian Land-Island Night Transport For Passengers

Island, as an important component of a national territory, has now become the symbol of divide between territorial waters and other waters under jurisdiction, the base for territorial sea control and marine development. Many islands in the world are key point for ocean exploitation and hub for sea-air transport, and also a strategic point to build and defend marine territory.With the continuous development of Liaoning Province, its islands has turned from a national defense role to an advance position for economy, trade, tourism, and also for shipping, oil exploration, aquaculture and aquatic product processing. At the same time, Land-Island transport is increasingly tense, being a constraint for further development of island economy. For the moment, Dalian Land-Island transport adopts day navigation only which reduces its capacity and not adapts with the increasing transportation demand. To start the night Land-Island transport will give more play to ports'resources and promote its sustainable development, in which case, however, many factors need to be considered, such as navigation aids setting, port facilities, seamen skills, equipment for night navigation on ship and shipping demand etc.Basis on the research of "Land-Island Passengers Transport at Night Feasibility", this paper makes a description on Dalian land-island transport situation and a forecast on its future development, and then, by means of technical economics and questionnaire statistics results, existing problems for the night transport are brought forward.