The impact of regional port integration in the context of the epidemic

ABSTRACT

The spread of the COVID-19 epidemic in 2020 has extremely serious negative impacts on the global freight supply chain with regional port groups as its core. In order to reconstruct the global freight supply chain as soon as possible, alleviate the vicious competition of regional port groups and promote the development of regional integration, the advantages of port integration are increasingly prominent. To this end, based on Gounod's game theory, a three-stage game model of port integration is constructed with the overall objective of obtaining the maximum economic benefits for the regional port group, based on the current characteristics of the global freight supply chain impacted by the COVID-19 epidemic, and empirical analysis is conducted using the data of the Liaoning port group, and the reverse induction method is used to quantitatively analyze the specific impact of regional port integration on the economic benefits of the port and determine the performance of the regional port group under the background of the epidemic The theoretical basis is laid for the rational decision of port managers. The calculation results show that there is a threshold effect in the integration process of the Liaoning regional port group, and the gradual deepening of the integration of the Liaoning regional port group can effectively mitigate the negative impact of the COVID-19 epidemic on the regional port group. © 2021 SPIE