A Research on Competition and Cooperation Between Shanghai Port and Ningbo-Zhoushan Port

Abstract

With the course of the integration of global economy accelerating, and the speedy growth of world trade, important nodes of global logistics and ports acquire more and more important status in the global economy. Ports with the development of Chinese economy and especially with the rapid growth of the foreign trade have made a great progress. This research mainly focuses on the study of the competition and cooperation between neighboring ports. Several models were developed in the research to analyze the relationship between Shanghai port and Ningbo-Zhoushan port. The research results show that the two ports enter into competition with each other. Ports are faced with competition not only from domestic ports but also from their counterparts in other countries. Therefore, Shanghai port and Ningbo-Zhoushan port should avoid competition and join hands in developing the resource reasonably in Zhoushan and achieving a regional scale economy, so that the entire ports in the region of the Yangtze River Delta can have a better competitive power.