A Benchmark Analysis of Italian Seaports Using Data Envelopment Analysis

Maritime Economics & Logistics - Tập 8 Số 4 - Trang 347-365 - 2006
Carlos Pestana Barros1
1Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestao, Technical University of Lisbon, Rua Miguel Lupi, 20, Lisbon, 1249-078, Portugal

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