Freight integration in liner shipping: A strategy serving global production networks

Growth and Change

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 550-569

  Notteboom, Theo ^a   Merckx, Filip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREIGHT TRANSPORT; SHIPPING;

EID: 33845319756     PISSN: 00174815     EISSN: 14682257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2257.2006.00340.x     Document Type: Article

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