An application of multi-criteria analysis to the location of a container hub port in South Africa

Maritime Policy and Management

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 51-79

  Notteboom, Theo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTAINER SHIP; HUB AND SPOKE NETWORK; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; PORT DEVELOPMENT; PORT OPERATION;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 78651234542     PISSN: 03088839     EISSN: 14645254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03088839.2010.533710     Document Type: Article

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