目前,我国北方有三个城市的政府在所制定的城市未来发展规划中明确提出要建设我国北方航运中心,这3个城市就是:青岛、天津和大连,而大连在这一进程中走在了后面。特别是集装箱运输差距非常明显。1998年青岛港集装箱吞吐量达到1213万ＴＥＵ、天津港达到1018万ＴＥＵ、而大连仅为 Currently, there are three cities in the north of our country that clearly set out to build a shipping center in the north of China in the future urban development plan. The three cities are Qingdao, Tianjin and Dalian, and Dalian is behind the process . In particular, the gap between container transport is very obvious. In 1998, the container throughput of Qingdao Port reached 12.13 million TEUs and that of Tianjin Port reached 10.18 million TEUs while that of Dalian was only