A CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVE OF INTERNATIONAL PORT OPERATIONS

A mail survey was sent to 236 worldwide ports for the purposeof investigating important factors in port selection as well as the influence of fifteen contemporary issues on international trade and port operations. Aggregate results indicate that "basic" service aspects, such as equipment availability and loss and damage record, are most important for choosing a port. In addition, the ability to handle large shipments, a proxy for port capacity, also emerges as a key port evaluation factor. This variable may assume even greater importance in the coming years as load centering-limiting operations to one port in a particular geographic area-becomes more prevalent.

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• Corporate Authors:

  American Society of Transportation and Logistics

  1816 Norris Place
  Louisville, KY  United States  40205
• Authors:
  • Murphy, P
  • Dalenberg, D
  • DALEY, J
• Publication Date: 1988-12

Media Info

• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 23-32
• Serial:
  • Transportation Journal
  • Volume: 28
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: American Society of Transportation and Logistics
  • ISSN: 0041-1612
  • Serial URL: https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/transportation-journal

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Consumer behavior; Consumer preferences; Ports
• Uncontrolled Terms: Criteria; Selecting
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Economics; Highways; Marine Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00484665
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 30 1989 12:00AM