Research on Competitiveness Evaluation of Major Inland Ports in China

Abstract

This paper constructs the competitiveness evaluation model and indicator system of inland port from three aspects of infrastructure, production capacity and development environment. The competitiveness of 31 major ports in the four river systems is measured by analytic hierarchy process and correlation coefficient method. According to the competitiveness evaluation results, K-means clustering analysis is carried out for inland ports by SPSS software. The results show that the competitiveness of inland ports in China is relatively low, and there is a significant gap between the competitiveness of ports in the same river system and different river systems. Each port has its own competitive sources. Highlighting the development advantages of each port and making up for the shortcomings will help to improve the efficiency of port resource allocation. At the same time, suggestions are put forward to improve the competitiveness of inland ports.