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Why are liners not as big as bulk carriers even in very dense trades? Is it because general cargo ports cannot accommodate very big ships, or is it because an adequate frequency of sailings cannot be maintained with too big ships? This is only part of the truth. In this chapter we go into a more fundamental reason why ship-size economies cannot be realized to the same extent, by far, in general-cargo shipping as in bulk shipping.
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© 1987 J.O. Jansson and D. Shneerson
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Jansson, J.O., Shneerson, D. (1987). Ship size and shipping costs. In: Liner Shipping Economics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3147-3_5
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