Optimal design of container liner services: Interactions with the transport demand in ports

Maritime Economics and Logistics

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 409-434

  Yang, Zhongzhen ^a   Chen, Kang ^a   Notteboom, Theo ^b  

^a DALIAN MARITIME UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Container; Feeder port; Ship routing; Slot allocation; Transport demand

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868095239     PISSN: 14792931     EISSN: 1479294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/mel.2012.14     Document Type: Article

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