On the proper modelling of multioutput port cargo handling costs

Applied Economics

Volumn 40, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 1699-1705

  Jara Díaz, Sergio ^a   Tovar, Beatriz ^a   Trujillo, Lourdes ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARGO HANDLING; COST; ESTIMATION METHOD; MODELING;

EID: 47649120155     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840600892902     Document Type: Article

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