For relay networks, seven pairs of categories, namely, "Monetary-Liner-related," "Time-Port Traffic," "Time-OperaTime-Liner-related-related," "Port Traffic-Liner-related," "Location-Liner-related," and "Operation-Liner-related," obtained significant differences.
Fishguard had been opened in an attempt to attract transatlantic liner traffic and provided a better facility for the Anglo-Irish ferries than that at Neyland.
Table 8 Comparisons of the Significance of Categories between Hub and Spoke and Relay Category Monetary Time Port Traffic Location Operation Liner-related Hub and Spoke 4.54 4.67 3.87 4.13 4.00 3.44 Relay 4.31 4.40 3.79 4.12 3.90 3.31 t-stat 0.847 1.923* 0.674 0.102 1.227 0.875 Note: *represents significance at the 5% level.
The relay case has a significantly higher mean score for the time category than for the port traffic, operation, and liner-related categories, whereas the port traffic, location, and operation categories obtain significantly higher mean scores than that of the liner-related category.
But over the last few years a new variety of ship has established a glitzy contrast to Elliot Bay's more workaday industrial traffic: the passenger cruise liner.
Hub port performances were evaluated considering each criterion mentioned under the time, port traffic, location, operation, and liner-related categories.
The hub port selection criteria are evaluated based on the monetary, time, port traffic, location, operation, and liner-related categories using a questionnaire survey administered to shipping lines.
The port traffic, location, operation, and liner-related categories obtained significantly lower mean scores than did the monetary category, emphasizing the high significance of the monetary category.
Moreover, the time category obtained a significantly higher mean score than did the port traffic, location, operation, and liner-related categories, whereas the port traffic, location, and operation categories obtained significantly higher mean scores than did the liner-related category.
From the third section of the questionnaire, the hub port performances related to the criteria grouped within the time, port traffic, location, operation, and liner-related categories were evaluated using the appreciation score proposed by Koi (2006), which uses a scale ranging from − 3 (worst) to + 3 (best).
The restoration of peace inevitably meant a reduction in military expenditure, but this was more than offset by a large increase in liner and cruise ship traffic to Gibraltar.
