Port Economics

by Jan Owen Jansson and Dan Shneerson

This study applies modern economic principles to the operations of modern port facilities, ranging from new ports in the planning stages for developing nations to established American and European ports retrofitted to handle container cargos and larger vessels. It investigates all the links in the chain of port services - the transfer of goods between land and sea transportation - and offers recommendations for strengthening the weaker links. Port...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262100258
• ISBN13: 9780262100250
• Release Date: October 1982
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 194 Pages