Levels of internationalization in the container shipping industry: An assessment of the port networks of the large container shipping companies

Journal of Transport Geography

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1431-1442

  Gadhia, Hitesh K ^a   Kotzab, Herbert ^a,b   Prockl, Günter ^a  

^a Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

^b GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Container shipping; Internationalization; Port networks

Indexed keywords

CONTAINER SHIP; DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM; GLOBALIZATION; MODELING; NETWORK ANALYSIS; PORT OPERATION; SERVICE SECTOR; SHIPPING; TRANSPORTATION DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 80052519011     PISSN: 09666923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2011.07.016     Document Type: Article

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