Economic adaptability evaluation of the main ports of artery of yangtze river

With the impact of economic crisis to the shipping market, the contradictions between river ports´ size, structure, ability and economic becoming more prominent. This status put forward new demands on port planning and the current port management model. Based on this, the major ports along the Yangtze selected as the research object. In this paper, for the economy adaptability evaluation of the main ports of artery of the Yangtze River, it from three aspects of economic adaptability, namely, carrying capacity, demand potential and economy support ability, establishing the related index, including the integrated port cargo throughput capacity and throughput, container throughput capacity and throughput as well as city economic scale, and using the mature DEA evaluation model to have the multi factor comprehensive evaluation, reaching economic development adaptability of 8 ports and cities.