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Determinants and strategies for the development of container terminals

The work addresses problems in containerised trade, given that the container industry has developed and grown steadily over the last two decades. The work examines an important player in the container industry, the container terminal. The results are significant for the container industry because we demonstrate that container terminals are more efficient than multi-purpose terminals, and that compared with local operators, global terminal operators do not have a dominant position in international maritime trade. From this work has stemmed the most recent approach on port attractiveness, which was awarded the 2013 Hanjin Prize by the International Association of Maritime Economists.