Pawns in the Game: Ports in a Global Transportation System
- 1 October 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Growth and Change
- Vol. 24 (4) , 579-588
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2257.1993.tb00138.x
Abstract
Although they are required to make very large investments, port authorities are discovering that they have less and less control over their destinies. The major decisions affecting port traffic are made by shipping lines whose activities are global in scale. This paper examines the plight of public monopoly ports in a highly competitive environment. Several policy options are discussed.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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