North American container port capacity: An exploratory analysis

Transportation Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1-22

  Maloni, Michael ^a   Jackson, Eric C ^a  

^a Department of Management Information Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTAINERIZATION; MARKET CONDITIONS; PORT; TRANSPORTATION ECONOMICS;

NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 24344468646     PISSN: 00411612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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