The cruise shipping industry in the corporate mergers and overpanamax eras. A comparison with the container shipping industry

BELGEO

Volumn , Issue 4, 2004, Pages 433-460

  Charlier, Jacques ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Container shipping; Corporate mergers; Cruise shipping; Economies of scale; Economies of scope; Overpanamax ships; Panamax ships

Indexed keywords

CONTAINER SHIP; ECONOMY OF SCALE; MERGER; PASSENGER SHIP; SHIPPING;

EID: 12944252171     PISSN: 13772368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4000/belgeo.13517     Document Type: Article

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