Stage

First generation

Second generation

Third generation

Fourth generation

Years

Before 1950

1950-1980

1980-1990

After 1990

Main cargo

General bulk cargo

General cargo;

Solid bulk;

Liquid bulk;

Solid bulk;

Liquid bulk;

Container bulk

Container bulk

Service mode

Port to port

Point to point in part of connected transportation

Door to door in multimodal transportation

The whole journey, whole network, whole process, multilevel, network to network in personalized service

Functional service

Provide the water and land transportation services such as ship dock, passenger transportation, cargo loading and unloading, transshipment and storage

Strengthen the function of industrial and commercial services and urban communities, the port cargo got appreciation and became a transportation center and service center

To strengthen the relationship with the city and the user, increase the information services of transportation and trade, as well as integrated services such as the distribution of goods, to make port become international logistics center and trade logistics base

With the city as the main body, with free trade as the basis, to provide the integration service of production, logistics, information, trade, finance and other services about resources and production factors, to make the port become the logistics supply chain center

The main features

Single goods flow, low value-added

Goods flow, combined services, and increase the value added

Goods information flow, integrated logistics services such as sub transportation, distribution and distribution, as well we entire transport, high value-added

Integrated logistics services

Strategy

&

status

For the post-war economy

water and land transportation hub; depending port of center city

Industry oriented

water and land transportation hub; traditional logistics shipment center; important central depending port

Business oriented;

integrated logistics service center; Regional energy security transshipment hub port; the modern comprehensive transportation hub; container transport trunk base port; the international deep-water port of transshipment

Ocean oriented;

international port and waterway alliance; the international center for marine economic development; marine industry comprehensive distribution hub

The determinants

Labour and capital

Capital and technology

Technology, information and service

Talent and environment