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This dissertation, "A Study of the Future Role of the Port of Hong Kong in the Pearl River Region" by 謝蘭芳, Lan-fong, Tse, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: Abstract of dissertation entitled A Study of the Future Role of the Port of Hong Kong in the Pearl River Region Submitted by Tse Lan Fong for the degree of Master of Arts in Transport Policy and Planning at The University of Hong Kong in June 2003 Hong Kong is the world''s busiest container port in terms of shipping tonnage and the port of Hong Kong has been the pillar of Hong Kong''s economy. Since 1987, the throughput has grown eleven times in the last 12 years. In 2002 Hong Kong had handled 19.1 million Twenty Foot Equivalent Unit (TEU) containers and this become the rise in container traffic is a positive indication of Hong Kong''s strength as an entreport. However, the total number of sea-going vessels arrival in Hong Kong decreased by 4.6 percent to 35,620. The total number of containers handled at Kwai Chung container berths was around 10.1 million TEUs sea-going cargo in 2001, a decrease of 4.8 percent compared with the year 2000. For the first time in more than two decades, Hong Kong''s container throughput slipped in 2001, from 18.1 million TEUs to 17.9 million TEUs. The economic growth rate of southern China is slowing down because of accentuating by the events of September 11, 2001. More importantly containerise cargo flows continued to migrate towards the other ports in the Pearl River Delta area, although at present Hong Kong is China''s most important container port, it is increasingly losing some of its trade to these other ports, particularly Yantian and Shekou. There is a brief description of the comparative advantages of the Port of Hong Kong and other ports in the Pearl River Delta Region at the beginning of this study. After a brief review of the development of the ports in the Region, this study employed the Porter Theory to analyse the role of the Port of Hong Kong under a rapidly changing environment and analyse that how Hong Kong''s traditional comparative advantage as an international hub and how this position is being challenged in the recent years due to the rise of other Pearl River Delta Region ports. On the other hand, this study then put the concept of CO-OPETITION as a potential strategy for the port of Hong Kong in rising to the new challenges and suggests a number of ways to build such a strategy. Reference is made to overseas experience on some of the key elements that can be employed to support the building of this strategy. The findings of this study point to the need to examine the relative strength of the port to attract shippers, the cargo base, the growth and propensity of cargo that would be diverted to other ports. This study also concluded that the port of Hong Kong should reposition itself at the same level of other ports in Pearl River area and develop a co-operative relationship with other ports, and implement strategies whereby the port of Hong Kong can share some of the overhead costs, research and development cost, marketing cost and accounting system cost etc. Therefore all ports in the region can enjoy a mutual benefit of lowering costs in the business through risk sharing, in enlarging the market catchments and forming allies against the competition with other ports in the Asian Pacific, such as Busan and Singapore. In conclusion, all ports in the Pearl River Delta area, including the Port of Hong Kong, would be benefit and achieve a win-win situation business environmen