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Port Economics

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ISBN-10: 0762311983

ISBN-13: 9780762311989

Edition: 2006

Authors: Kevin Cullinane, Wayne K. Talley

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A port (or seaport) is a place that provides for the vessel transfer of cargo and passengers to and from waterways and shores. Port economics is concerned with the study of the economics of port services. Users of port services are those that utilize the port as part of the transportation process of moving cargo and passengers to and from origin and destination locations. Users include transportation carrriers such as shipping lines, railroads and trucking firms that perform these movements and shippers and individuals that provide the cargo and themselves as passengers to be transported. Port users demand port services, whereas port service providers such as the port terminal operator…    
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Book details

List price: $111.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: JAI Press Limited
Publication date: 6/22/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 260
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English

Professor Kevin Cullinane is Chair in Marine Transport & Management at the University of Newcastle in the U.K. He was previously Professor and Head of the Department of Shipping & Transport Logistics at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Head of the Centre for International Shipping & Transport at Plymouth University, Senior Partner in his own transport consultancy company and Research Fellow at the University of Oxford Transport Studies Unit. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport and has been a transport adviser to the governments of Hong Kong, Egypt, Chile and the U.K. He holds visiting Professorships at a number of institutions and an Honorary…    

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