The function of port logistics

Since ancient times, ports have always been an important transit point for domestic and foreign trade. The appearance of ports greatly facilitates the transportation time, shortens the transportation distance of various trades, and promotes the development of economic and trade exchanges among countries. With the discovery of marine advantages, various developed countries have successively regarded marine ports as an important window for economic trade and opened up a series of colonies through the ocean.

With the strengthening of economic globalization, economic exchanges between countries are getting closer and closer. Modern ports promote the development of trade between countries and regions. The use of ports as a trading platform has greatly improved the trade between countries and regions, promoted commercial prosperity, further promoted the development of the logistics industry, formed a virtuous circle, and further developed commerce and trade. Traditional ports are mainly used as cargo loading and unloading bases and transit stations, that is, goods are transported by ships through ports or by ships to stops in other modes of transportation, and the spatial transfer of goods is realized through port transit.

With the development of economy, the development of coastal industries and the convenient transportation conditions of ports, some raw material manufacturers and enterprises that need to use ports as water transportation conditions directly use ports as production bases to distribute raw materials, thus promoting the industrial development of cities where ports are located. At the same time, the port can also provide tourism services for the city where the port is located, and promote the development of real estate, finance and other businesses. Modern port has become a large-scale service place integrating industry, commerce, tourism, transportation and service. At present, the port not only plays the role of traditional goods storage and loading and unloading, but also uses modern information technology to carry out modern transportation and warehousing, and uses modern and efficient distribution methods to distribute goods and carry out modern transportation. It integrates the functions of warehousing, packaging, bonded, processing, sales, wholesale, exhibition, shipping transaction and information management, and integrates the whole logistics service process from consignor to consignee with the function of supply chain integration system. Modern information flow will inevitably lead to port capital flow, and will inevitably lead to the improvement of supporting financial services requirements, thus driving the development of the financial industry.