Slot allocation planning for an alliance service with ship fleet sharing

Asia Pacific Management Review

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 325-339

  Lu, Hua An ^a   Chu, Ching Wu ^a   Che, Pei Yu ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Intra Asia Export Consolidation Section   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Alliance service; Fleet sharing; Short sea service; Slot allocation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957967545     PISSN: 10293132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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