Port selection factors and attractiveness: The service providers' perspective

Transportation Journal

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 141-161

  Sanchez, Ricardo J ^a   Ng, Adolf K Y ^b   Garcia Alonso, Lorena ^c  

^a United Nations Economic Commission For Latin America and the Caribbean Chile   (Chile)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); PORT OPERATION; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; SERVICE SECTOR; SHIPPING;

ASIA; LATIN AMERICA;

EID: 84856431927     PISSN: 00411612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5325/transportationj.50.2.0141     Document Type: Article

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