Research on the Competitiveness Evaluation of Liaoning Port Group Under the Background of Port Integration

Under the policy “Building National Strength in Transportation”, the integration of provincial ports guided by resource integration and complementary advantages is becoming a new development trend in China’s ports. Combined with the current situation of port integration, this paper compares the competitiveness of 11 major ports in northern countries by constructing an entropy weight TOPSIS evaluation model to make an objective evaluation of the Liaoning Port Group horizontally. Not only that, combined with the development status of China’s shipping industry, this paper focuses on analyzing the changes in the competitiveness of Liaoning Port Group before and after the integration and provides references and suggestions for Liaoning Port Group in its future operations.