The corporate geography of global container terminal operators

Maritime Policy and Management

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 249-279

  Notteboom, Theo ^a,b   Rodrigue, Jean Paul ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b ANTWERP MARITIME ACADEMY   (Belgium)

^c HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS CYCLE; CARGO HANDLING; CONTAINER TERMINAL; CORPORATE STRATEGY; PORT OPERATION; TRANSPORTATION ECONOMICS;

EID: 84860907973     PISSN: 03088839     EISSN: 14645254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03088839.2012.671970     Document Type: Article

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