Port governance models: Financial evaluation of Greek port restructuring

Transport Policy

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 232-246

  Pallis, Athanasios A ^a   Syriopoulos, Theodore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

Financial performance evaluation; Financial ratio analysis; Port governance; Port performance

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVENESS; FINANCIAL SYSTEM; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; MODERNIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PORT DEVELOPMENT; TRANSPORTATION DEVELOPMENT; TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

THESSALONIKI;

EID: 34248654381     PISSN: 0967070X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2007.03.002     Document Type: Article

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