On flexibility and sustainability in container ports

2009 IEEE/INFORMS International Conference on Service Operations, Logistics and Informatics, SOLI 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 417-422

  Hakam, Moulay Hicham ^a   Wei, Deng Solvang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Flexibility; Sustainability and container ports

Indexed keywords

CONTAINER PORTS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES; FLEXIBILITY; LINK FLEXIBILITY; MULTI-MODALITY; MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION; SUSTAINABILITY AND CONTAINER PORTS;

CONTAINERS; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT; SUPPLY CHAINS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

PORTS AND HARBORS;

EID: 70449574722     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SOLI.2009.5203969     Document Type: Conference Paper

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