Port Co-opetition Research in Bulk and Container Businesses

To study port competition and cooperation in bulk and container business, we discuss the port competition, the port cooperation of cost allocation and cost sharing business cooperation. Under Cournot game scheme, we discuss the congestion cost and receive quantities and profits. Our study shows that the port enterprise achieve higher throughput only competition without cooperation. Under the stable market demand the throughput increases and the price will decrease in accordance with a certain condition. Port quantity is higher in cost sharing than the cost allocation.