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Comment on this article
Asaf Ashar
September 26, 2019 at 3:33 pmA nice and comprehensive excercise. One comment: reducing sea distance by dropping port calls (reducing port connectivity) to enable slower speed and savings in fuel consumption — can result in increasing land distance (trucking) and fuel consumption. Accordingly, a more meaningful exercise should encompass the entire O/D transport system.