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Classifying Ports for Efficiency Benchmarking: A Review and a Frontier-based Clustering Approach

Beatriz TovarDepartment of Applied Economics, Infrastructure and Transport Research Group, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Campus de Tafira, Modulo D, Despacho 2.20, 35017Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, SpainCorrespondence[email protected]
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Héctor Rodríguez-DénizStatistics Division, Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, 58183Linköping, Sweden
Pages 378-400 | Received 09 Sep 2014, Accepted 02 Feb 2015, Published online: 10 Mar 2015

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