Ding, Ding; Teo, Chung-Piaw - In: Maritime Policy & Management 37 (2010) 4, pp. 401-426
We show in this paper that the throughput data for the top 300 container ports reported each year by the various authorities follows a simple truncated lognormal distribution. This surprising phenomenon repeats itself every year from 1982 to 2006, despite many tumultuous changes in the container...