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In its simplest form, ‘Globalisation’ refers to the increasing geographical scale of economic, social and political interactions. International trade and its integral activities of importing and exporting constitute the fundamental aspects of globalisation (Janelle and Beuthe, 1997).

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© 2005 Teng-Fei Wang, Kevin Cullinane and Dong-Wook Song

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Wang, TF., Cullinane, K., Song, DW. (2005). Introduction. In: Container Port Production and Economic Efficiency. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230505971_1

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