Evaluating the Environmental Performance and Operational Efficiency of Container Ports: An Application to the

Gang Dong1, Jing Zhu2, Jin Li3

  • 1School of Economics and Management, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai 201306, China. gangdong@shmtu.edu.cn.

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