A revenue management slot allocation model for liner shipping networks

Maritime Economics and Logistics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 334-361

  Zurheide, Sebastian ^a   Fischer, Kathrin ^a  

^a HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

booking limits; liner shipping; network revenue management; slot allocation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865432915     PISSN: 14792931     EISSN: 1479294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/mel.2012.11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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