Port competitiveness from the users' perspective: An analysis of major container ports in China and its neighboring countries

Research in Transportation Economics

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 34-40

  Yuen, Chi Lok Andrew ^a   Zhang, Anming ^b   Cheung, Waiman ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process; Port competitiveness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860234311     PISSN: 07398859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.retrec.2011.11.005     Document Type: Article

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