Are you prepared for a devastating port strike in 2008?

Transportation Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 43-53

  Farris II, M Theodore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PORT OPERATION; SOCIAL MOVEMENT; TRANSPORTATION ECONOMICS; TRANSPORTATION SAFETY;

EID: 41349098357     PISSN: 00411612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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