Ningbo Port Container Transport Development Strategy

Port is an important infrastructure that supports the economic development of a country or a region, and is a transportation linkage between manufacture and consummation as well as domestic and abroad. The development of a port has direct relationship with the prosperity of the port city and even the hinterland. Ningbo, the traditional port city in the Yangtze River Delta of China, is the foreign trading foreland of the Zhejiang province and the important channel that connects the East of China to the whole world. It is of great meaning to accelerate the development and construction of the container transportation of Ningbo port, which not only makes sense to the promotion of the economy of Ningbo City but also does good in boosting its hinterland to take part in the world economical cooperation The development of the container transportation of Ningbo port is a large promotion to the economical development of Yangtze River Delta Economic Zone, the East of China and the whole countryIn this paper the author analyzed the exterior environment of the container transportation of Ningbo port focusing on World and China's economic situation, the trend of global container transport development, Ship Enlargement, the development of logistics industry, hinterland and other port's development state. Then by the introduction of Ningbo port, inland gathering and scattering system the and analysis of the container capacity the author described a general interior status. Based on the qualitative analysis the paper forecast the future throughput by the combination forecast model. Afterward based on the above analysis and forecast result, a developing object was get: to initially built an international container hub port by 2010 and to Completed the international container hub port construction in 2020. And accordingly the paper put forward some keystones such as shipping company-oriented approach, realizing scaled transportation of container by Playing on existing strengths, lowering operating costs, improving service quality etc. and then got the conclusion.