World Shipping and Port Development - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1403947538 ISBN 13: 9781403947536

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

Synopsis

With the globalization of production and consumption, shipping and ports play an increasingly vital part in facilitating the world-wide movement of cargoes. Containing a selection of papers by some of the world's leading maritime economists, this book provides comprehensive and detailed analyses of the most critical issues affecting these sectors. Areas addressed include: the role of ports and shipping within the global supply chain; the development of international logistics and; the impact of public policy on competition, pricing and efficiency.

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ALFRED J. BAIRD Napier University, UK M. BENACCHIO University of Genoa, Italy MARY R. BROOKS Professor, Dalhousie University, Canada SHARON L. CULLINANE Hong Kong University, Hong Kong SOPHIA EVERETT Victoria University of Melbourne, Australia MICHAEL FIRTH The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong STEPHEN X. H. GONG The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong HERCULES E. HARALAMBIDES Center for Maritime Economics and Logistics (MEL), Erasmus University, The Netherlands KWANG HEE KIM Kobe University of Mercantile Marine, Japan KUNIO MIYASHITA University of Marketing and Distribution Science, Japan E. MUSSO University of Genoa, Italy DONG-WOOK SONG Hong Kong University, Hong Kong JOSE TONGZON Associate Professor, National University of Singapore, Singapore A. VERBEKE University of Brussels, Belgium MARINER WANG Associate Dean and Professor of International Affairs, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan TENGFEI WANG University of Newcastle, UK JIAN HUA YANG Kobe University of Mercantile Marine, Japan JIAQI YANG Wuhan University of Technology, China SHIGERU YOSHIDA Kobe University of Mercantile Marine, Japan

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1403947538
• ISBN 13: 9781403947536
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Lee Paul Yae-Woo, Cullinane Kevin