Studying port selection on liner routes: An approach from logistics perspective

Research in Transportation Economics

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 39-53

  Tran, Nguyen Khoi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Container shipping; Liner route; Maritime logistics; Mega vessel; Network optimisation; Port selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052720329     PISSN: 07398859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.retrec.2011.06.005     Document Type: Article

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