“21世纪海上丝绸之路”对香港港口发展的机遇与挑战

Challenges and Opportunities for Hong Kong Port Development in the context of the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road Initiative

随着全球经济增长逐步从西方转向亚洲,香港外贸的格局也逐步转型,需要与亚洲新兴市场加强经贸合作关系,"21世纪海上丝绸之路"战略的提出为香港经贸以及港口航运业的发展带来机遇。同时,在"一路"战略的支持下,大陆港口将进一步国际化,香港作为华南地区枢纽港的地位将持续受到挑战。通过对全球化港口和航运业发展趋势的理论回顾,得出港口区域化和港口间合作是当前港口发展的两大趋势,香港需要探索在"一路"的战略下,顺应这两个趋势,与珠三角区域内港口间相互协调实现港口区域化并开展与"一路"沿线国家港口的合作。

With the global economic growth shifting from the western countries to Asia, the foreign trade structure of Hong Kong is undergoing restructuring as its economic and trade ties with Asian new economies strengthened. The 21 st Century Maritime Silk Road initiative brings in opportunities to the development of port and maritime industries in Hong Kong. In the meantime, ports in the mainland will further internationalize under the initiative, which will chalenge Hong Kong＇s role as the regional hub in Southern China. This paper examines the latest development trend of port and maritime industries. Two trends, i.e., port regionalization and port cooperation are identified. Hong Kong needs to follow these two trends and cultivate port regionalization in the Pearl River Delta and develop cooperative relationship with ports along the 21 st Century Maritime Silk Road.