Evolution and Spatial Structure of Container Liner Network in the Yangtze River Delta
Research based on shipping line has been the frontier issues and hot areas in the western port geogra-phy for the past few years, but it is still weak in the domestic. The article selects the Yangtze River Delta as a case because of the most active global container transport and better Liner network, with study period from 1996 to 2013 years and four key years of 1996, 2002, 2007, 2013. Respectively, the article has explored time-space evolution of container liner network in the Yangtze River Delta from shipping route, liner density and spatial linkage, involving 78 liner shipping companies and 10726 container liner routes. Analysis shows:the spatial structure of container liner routes has tended to concentration in recently 18 years, and shows the op-posite tendency of spatial structure of container flow. In the liner routes quantity and liner density, Shanghai port has been ahead of the other ports and its international hub has been constantly strengthen for the last 18 years. Although, the Ningbo's growth rate has been greater than Shanghai, but compared with Shanghai, it still has a large gap in the liner network organization. In the Yangtze River liner network, it has basically formed a container liner shipping network with Shanghai as an international hub port, with Taicang, Nanjing, Zhangjia-gang, Nantong as trunk ports and other ports as feeder ports. From the spatial linkages of container ports, the connection between Shanghai and Ningbo port has transformed from mainly relying on coastal liner routes to international shipping route, and their relationship also has evolved from feeding relationship to competing re-lationship.
portliner networkliner routeliner densitythe Yangtze River Delta
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