Study On The Performance Of Ports In China

The port is the basic industry in the national economy and an important node of the global supply chain network. As the reform of the port management system deepens, the authority and the investor give attention to the performance of the port enterprise more and more. Therefore, it is necessary to evaluate the performance of the port enterprise.Firstly, the thesis analyses the external environment of the port in China completely, which includes economic environment, policy environment and technical environment. In the economic environment, the thesis analyses the effect of the macro economy and the entry of WTO on the port. In the policy environment, the thesis states the reform course of the port management system. In the technical environment, the thesis analyses the effect of the ship technology and the IT technology on the port. Then, the thesis forecasts the development tendency of the port in China on basis of the analysis of the external environment.Secondly, the thesis summarizes the research status of the performance evaluation on the port enterprise. On basis of the available research achievements, the thesis applies the principle of Balanced Scorecard(BSC)to construct the index system of the performance evaluation on the port enterprise in China, which includes the financial perspective, the customer perspective, the internal business process perspective and the learning and growth perspective.Finally, the thesis applies factor analysis to analyze the performance of the port enterprise empirically. The thesis evaluates the comprehensive performance on the 8 listed port companies. The result indicates that the performance of Tianjin Port, Yantian Port and Shanghai Port are much better than others, and the performance of Yingkou Port, Beihai Port and Chongqing Port, are the worst.