Polat, Olcay; Günther, Hans-Otto; Kulak, Osman - In: Maritime Economics and Logistics 16 (2014) 3, pp. 343-369
Global containership liners design their transportation service as hub-and-spoke networks to improve the access to local transportation markets and to reduce operational costs by using short-sea connections for low-volume transportation lanes. These connections from the hub ports to the regional...