Concession agreements and market entry in the container terminal industry

Maritime Economics and Logistics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 209-228

  Pallis, Athanasios A ^a   Notteboom, Theo E ^b   De Langen, Peter W ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d PORT OF ROTTERDAM AUTHORITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Concessions; Contestability; Market entry; Ports

Indexed keywords

EID: 54249149063     PISSN: 14792931     EISSN: 1479294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/mel.2008.1     Document Type: Article

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