Cooperative Operation Optimization for Port Groups: Based on China’s Practice

This book focuses on port collaborative operation, an important emerging topic in the port and shipping industry, and deeply analyzes the high-quality collaborative mechanism of port groups from the perspectives of port groups’ supply chain cooperative operation mechanism, port groups’ logistics network optimization, port groups’ collaborative scheduling optimization of resources, etc. Based on the combination of qualitative and quantitative analysis on China’s cases, this book makes comprehensive use of game theory, network optimization, multi-dimensional resource cooperative scheduling optimization, and other theories and methods, and promotes the update and innovation of current research methods in related research areas. The feasible policy insights for optimization of port groups’ collaborative operation are suggested at the end of book, which will help with the improvement of economic, environmental, and social benefits of port groups, and promote the port industry’s innovation, upgrading, and transformation.

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Professor Bo Lu is a national youth talent, chief expert of major project of the National Social Science Fund of China. Professor Lu has been engaged in research and teaching in the field of shipping economic and port operation for nearly 20 years. He has published nearly 50 scientific research papers as the first author or corresponding author and four monographs in both Chinese and English and has twice been supported by the National Science and Technology Academic Works Publishing Foundation. As the first completed person, he has won ten provincial and ministerial level awards.