Deep-sea container carrier performance: How efficient Are the respective container carriers

International Journal of Shipping and Transport Logistics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 55-74

  Wiegmans, Bart ^a   Bu, Lei ^b,c   Kim, Nam Seok ^d  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Deep sea container carriers; Efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870774702     PISSN: 17566517     EISSN: 17566525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJSTL.2013.050591     Document Type: Article

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