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Port Management brings together a collection of seminal papers from Palgrave’s journal Maritime Economics and Logistics. It is a dynamic volume, containing contributions from leading authors with different disciplinary backgrounds, representing a vast regional diversity. The volume provides authoritative and timely investigations into key topics in port economics, including research on: global supply chains, port networks, choice modelling, port infrastructure, competition, port pricing, efficiency in European seaports, and an analysis of Chinese container ports. It is essential reading for professionals, scholars, and researchers interested in port economics.

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Author:   H. Haralambides
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   5.857kg
ISBN:  

9781137475763

ISBN 10:   1137475765
Pages:   367
Publication Date:   10 July 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Containerisation, Box Logistics and Global Supply Chains: The Integration of Ports and Liner Shipping Networks; Jean-Paul Rodrigue and Theo Notteboom.- 2. A New Approach to Port Choice Modelling; Mateus Magala and Adrian Sammons.- 3. Coordination in Hinterland Transport Chains: A Major Challenge for the Seaport Community; Martijn R Van Der Horst and Peter W De Langen.- 4. The Efficiency of European Container Terminals and Implications for Supply Chain Management; Teng-Fei Wang and Kevin Cullinane.- 5. An Alternative Approach to Efficiency Measurement of Seaports; Ro-Kyung Park and Prabir De.- 6. An Application of AHP on Transhipment Port Selection: A Global Perspective; T C Lirn, H A Thanopoulou, M J Beynon and A K C Beresford.- 7. A Competitive Analysis of Chinese Container Ports Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process; Dong-Wook Song and Gi-Tae Yeo.- 8. Port Infrastructure: An Access Model for the Essential Facility; Lincoln Flor and Enzo Defilippi.- 9. Competition, Excess Capacity,and the Pricing of Port Infrastructure; Hercules Haralambides.- 10. Efficiency in European Seaports with DEA: Evidence from Greece and Portugal; Carlos Pestana Barros and Manolis Athanassiou.- 11. Governance in Seaport Clusters; Peter De Langen.- 12. The ISPS Code and the Cost Of Port Compliance: An Initial Logistics and Supply Chain Framework for Port Security Assessment and Management; Khalid Bichou.- 13. Concession Agreements and Market Entry in the Container Terminal Industry; Athanasios A Pallis, Theo E Notteboom and Peter W De Langen.- 14. The Size Economies and Network Efficiency; Sidney Gilman.- 15. An Optimization Model for the Inland Repositioning of Empty Containers; Alessandro Olivo, Massimo Di Francesco and Paola Zuddas.

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Hercules Haralambides is Professor of Maritime Economics and Logistics at Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands.

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