The Strategical Research on the Cooperation between Ports and Shipping lines

In the light of necessary analysis on the cooperation and development between ports and shipping line, and the characteristic of cooperation between international ports and shipping lines, the article analyses the operating strategies in actual shipping lines benefits to the cooperation between ports and shipping lines. After all-round analysis on the cooperation and development between ports and shipping lines, the author presents the running model of ports and shipping lines in Far East, which is the integration of operation between ports and shipping lines (namely integration of logistics service network). Finally, the article points out that strengthening constantly the cooperation between ports and the fields of shipping, and boosting actively the cooperation and development model between ports and shipping lines, which benefits both to the interests of ports and shipping lines themselves and to stable and healthy growth of ports and shipping lines market in Asia, also is a inevitable choice of ports and shipping lines seeking how to develop in new international competition situation. With the world economy growing stably and going into integration quickly, it gives a favorable chance for the development of the world shipping market. In Asia, especially in Far East, it has become a competitive and developmental center of world shipping market. Under these circumstances, that how to keep the shipping predominance and boost the market developing with steady steps in Far East region, is a great invent which concerned to the ports and shipping companies of China, Japan and Korea. In recent years, our three countries all make the big steps on ports construction in order to accelerate its competitive capabilities in shipping market. As the developing strategic of cooperation between the ports and shipping lines is to give full enthusiasm to shipping companies in investing docks, storages and establishments, so all these could be beneficial to each side, and also make ports become very important node of logistics. Since the nineties of the twentieth century, the developing situation of the international shipping market has been taken a great change as the world and regions economy growing. This change is also made strong influence upon the world ports which make progress from feeder net of the shipping lines, transport technique and ports function. The ports get direct impact from shipping companies on their location, layout and ports operation equipments. In order to develop under such competitive condition, the ports should play more attention to ships calling economically and efficiently. For raising competitive ability, the main ports in cooperation with the shipping lines that specially attracting liners investing heavily in terminals with preferential portage and knight service have uninterrupted reinforced. At present, the cooperation between the ports and shipping lines have become a trend of developing for international liner market and port hub competitively as the strategical significance of the cooperation between the ports and liners concerned by shipping industry.