Research on Prosperity Index of China’s Coastal Cargo Port Enterprises

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10.2991/978-94-6239-825-2_58How to use a DOI?

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Coastal Cargo Port Enterprises; Prosperity Index; Industry Fluctuation; High-quality Development

Abstract

As the core hub of domestic and international trade circulation, coastal cargo port enterprises undertake the important function of connecting inland economic regions and overseas markets, and their operating prosperity directly reflects the development vitality of the port logistics industry and the macroeconomic operation status of foreign trade. In recent years, against the background of fluctuating global shipping markets, restructuring domestic industrial chains, and accelerating green and intelligent transformation of ports, the operating conditions of China’s coastal cargo port enterprises have shown obvious structural differentiation and periodic volatility. To scientifically quantify the operating development status of coastal cargo port enterprises, identify industry operation laws and potential risks, this paper constructs a multi-dimensional prosperity index evaluation system covering operational scale, operational efficiency, profitability, market confidence and development potential based on the economic cycle theory and port industry operational characteristics. Taking China’s major coastal cargo port enterprises as the research sample, this paper adopts the seasonal adjustment method and equal-weight synthesis model to measure the prosperity level of the port industry from 2023 to 2026,analyzes the periodic fluctuation characteristics and key influencing factors of enterprise prosperity, and explores the prominent problems such as homogeneous competition, slowing throughput growth and increasing transformation costs faced by current coastal cargo port enterprises. The research results show that the prosperity index of China’s coastal cargo port enterprises maintains a slight prosperity range with obvious quarterly fluctuations; traditional business scale advantage gradually weakens, and intelligent and green transformation capabilities have become core factors affecting enterprise prosperity; macro foreign trade situation, shipping market price fluctuations and industrial policy adjustments are the main external driving forces of index changes. Finally, targeted optimization strategies are proposed from the aspects of differentiated operation, digital transformation, cost control and industrial collaborative development, so as to provide empirical support and decision-making reference for the stable and high-quality development of coastal cargo port enterprises and the healthy operation of the port logistics industry.

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AU  - Chengcheng Song
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/11/10
TI  - Research on Prosperity Index of China’s Coastal Cargo Port Enterprises
BT  - Proceedings of the 2026 5th International Conference on Public Service, Economic Management and Sustainable Development (PESD 2026)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 606
EP  - 615
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6239-825-2_58
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