Logistical rivalries and port competition for container flows to US markets: Impacts of changes in Canada's logistics system and expansion of the Panama Canal

Maritime Economics and Logistics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 327-357

  Fan, Lei ^a   Wilson, William W ^a   Tolliver, Denver ^a  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Container shipping; Inter port competition; Optimization models

Indexed keywords

EID: 70450267570     PISSN: 14792931     EISSN: 1479294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/mel.2009.15     Document Type: Article

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