Shippers' Port and carrier selection behaviour in China: A discrete choice analysis

Maritime Economics and Logistics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 23-39

  Tiwari, Piyush ^a   Itoh, Hidekazu ^a   Doi, Masayuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

China; Discrete choice model; Multinomial logit model; Port choice; Shipping line choice

Indexed keywords

EID: 0348162481     PISSN: 14792931     EISSN: 1479294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.mel.9100062     Document Type: Article

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