Groups in DEA based cross-evaluation: An application to Asian container ports

Maritime Policy and Management

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 545-558

  Wu, Jie ^a   Yan, Hong ^b   Liu, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTAINER SHIP; CONTAINER TERMINAL; NUMERICAL METHOD; PORT OPERATION;

ASIA; EURASIA;

EID: 71249155162     PISSN: 03088839     EISSN: 14645254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03088830903346095     Document Type: Article

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