Resource dimension

Economic dimension

Technical dimension

Comprehensive suitability

Evolutionary momentum

Shanghai port

0.8619

(1)

0.4896

(2)

0.6169

(1)

0.8920

(1)

0.2824

(9)

Lianyungang port

0.2046

(6)

0.2193

(8)

0.2237

(6)

0.2719

(8)

0.4707

(2)

Nantong Port

0.1586

(9)

0.1586

(9)

0.1586

(9)

0.1979

(9)

0.6080

(1)

Taizhou Port

0.1962

(8)

0.2364

(7)

0.3894

(3)

0.3408

(5)

0.4281

(5)

Zhenjiang Port

0.2023

(7)

0.2463

(6)

0.2144

(8)

0.2774

(7)

0.4617

(3)

Suzhou Port

0.2660

(4)

0.7216

(1)

0.2219

(7)

0.4263

(4)

0.3981

(6)

Nanjing Port

0.2076

(5)

0.2950

(4)

0.2370

(5)

0.2979

(6)

0.4308

(4)

Huzhou Port

0.2687

(3)

0.2875

(5)

0.5516

(2)

0.4933

(3)

0.3925

(7)

Ningbo-Zhoushan port

0.5416

(2)

0.3830

(3)

0.2476

(4)

0.5401

(2)

0.3612

(8)