Research Of Developing Strategy Of Taicang Port

Port of Taicang is located in Suzhou city, Jiangsu province with Changjiang River in east, Shanghai city in south, Changsu city in west. It is built in 1992, approved as provincial district in November 1993 by Jiangsu province, opened to foreign vessels in December 1995, listed in provincial key ports and became the first-class port in February 1996. the berths of Port of Taicang is 540 meters long , wharf nol is multi-useful while wharf no. 2 is used for containers. Her annual thruput is designed 250thousand TEU and 400thousand tons of general cargo. Her direct economic hinterland is Suzhou city, and radiate to Shanghai, JiangZhe etc the whole Changjiang delta Simultaneously. The Changjiang delta is the area that have the fastest economic development in China. Jiangsu province, which in the changjiang delta, her GDP is keeping annual increasing more than 10% for continual lOyears since 1992. Suzhou city is also the best developed area in Jiangsu province, its general economy named the sixth after that of Shanghai, Beijing , Guangzhou, Shenzheng and Tianjin in China, and she is one of the most developing potential cities which listed by U. N. in China. The area economy' s quickly increase is eagerly request the backing of the port' s powerful supports. Thus it' s very important to do the research on the developing strategy for the Port of Taicang to be an international port city.This paper is searched along the Port of Taicang' s history, based on the analysis of her present condition. It dissertates that the Port of Taicang faces waiting for the developing condition' s to be more improved, pressure from neighbor ports, same economic area with otherports and short of professional etc a set of matter. Through the introducing of doping out way, according to the character of Taicang port that she is not found so long time and have not enough information in hand, it is confirmed and choosed the doping out way. Based on the analysis of the hinterland economic conditions, it is doped out the thruput of the containers, logs and steels of Taicang port close and far period. Then, as the doping out of the port thruput to determined the number of berths to be built, the condition of the storage' s capacity with the machine equipment, and the constructing of the relevant logistics establishment. So we carry out the target for port of Taicang :Promote it to be the bigger port of the first one in Changjiang River area;To built Tangcang port as a center with the group port of Shanghai international shipping center , along with bankroll, information and logistics. With researching the actualized of the Taicang port' s developing strategy, it is found that if only adopt advanced management system; Reasonable establish departments; Greatly build port facilities; Adopt multi-investors and comprehensively absorb all kinds of bankroll to solut the shortage of the bankroll for building port;The key for this developing schedule is the management and cutivation for labor resouce; Develop port logistics, definite port orientation, determined the working guide line of management, improved with the time, found a system with modernized business administration and to be running, the strategic object for Taicang Port should be realized.