Application of Cluster Analysis to Classify the Ports of Bohai Ring Area

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In the context of globalization, it should be have more advantages if ports join in competition in the form of group. But the port classification is not clear, so the necessary of analyzing the ports’s classification in the Bohai ring area is carried out. Cluster analysis was applied in classifying the ten ports of Bohai ring area and provided the basis for the classification and port layout . According to the clustering result, 10 ports are divided into four categories.

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