At the end of 2006 year, the Shenzhen traffic department plans to write new Shenzhen port overall plan. In the new overall plan, the Shenzhen port will face directly along with the problems came from harbor fast development, rear area the land territory’s serious insufficiency, the harbor consolidation transport system impeded, the harbor economic structure unreasonable, the neighboring harbor competition’s intense and so on, the new plan’s proposed will construct the Shenzhen port’s long term sustainable health development. This article will utilize the harbor competition index system to compare the Shenzhen port and the shanghai port's container harbor competitive ability. Then from the differences and the disparities between the two port’s develop path, the beneficial proposal will be put forward to the Shenzhen port’s future development.
Keywords: Shanghai terminal; Shenzhen terminal; container port; port competitive edge; competition index system for evaluation
