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In recent years, with rapid expansion of global business and international trade, one distinctive feature of the current container port industry is that competition among container ports is more intensive than previously (Liu in Journal of Transport Economics and Policy 29(3):263–274, 1995; Tongzon and Heng in Transportation Research A: Policy and Practice 39(5):405–424, 2005; Yap and Lam in Transportation Research A: Policy and Practice).
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Lu, B., Wang, S. (2017). Introduction. In: Container Port Production and Management. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2428-3_1
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