The Study On The Location Of Guangzhou Port's Dry Ports

With the rapid development of international multimodal transport, container transportation has expanded inland while its capacity is becoming increasingly deficient. As a new mode in logistics transport centre, dry port is highly focused by the academy and business.Research and practice on the field of dry port have been carried out since 1980s. Yet to Guangzhou port, its system study on dry port is vacant, especially in the field of its location.At present, Guangzhou port and the government are still lack of a proper planning for the strategy development of Guangzhou port in the logistics layout. In practice, newest logistics theories are not generally used. For example, in-depth study of inland dry port has not been projected.Based on the above background, this paper develops systemic analysis on the subject of location of dry port cities which are cooperated with Guangzhou. We impose analytic hierarchy process to make proposal in the range of Guangdong Province. This paper includes five chapters as follows:(1) This paper expounds the related theories, research background, target and method of dry port and gives a systemic summarize of the present status.(2) This paper discusses the connotation, sort, function, pattern of growth and the current development of dry port in China.(3) This paper sums up the current development of both Guangzhou and the nominee cities of dry port, Feasibility analysis is given from the sight of economy and society.(4) Analytic hierarchy process is used to build the evaluation index system for dry port location. Basic proposal for dry port location in the range of Guangdong Province has been generated and eight target dry port citied are selected.(5) Aim at the shortage of Guangzhou port from its development history, we put forward suggestions for its dry port project implement.