Journal of Shipping and Trade

Table 9 Comparisons of Significance of Categories within the Same Network Type

From: Transshipment hub port selection criteria by shipping lines: the case of hub ports around the bay of Bengal

		Hub and Spoke	Relay
Mean Score	Monetary	4.54	4.31
	Time	4.67	4.40
	Port Traffic	3.87	3.79
	Location	4.13	4.12
	Operation	4.00	3.90
	Liner-related	3.44	3.31
Pair of Categories t-stat	Monetary-Time	−0.948	−0.570
	Monetary-Port Traffic	3.225*	1.228
	Monetary-Location	2.259*	0.732
	Monetary-Operation	3.648*	1.320
	Monetary-Liner-related	5.977*	2.309*
	Time-Port Traffic	4.485*	2.249*
	Time-Location	3.220*	1.752
	Time-Operation	5.100*	2.745*
	Time-Liner-related	9.860*	3.665*
	Port Traffic-Location	−1.443	−1.244
	Port Traffic-Operation	−1.224	−0.617
	Port Traffic-Liner-related	2.029*	1.965*
	Location-Operation	0.874	1.250
	Location-Liner-related	2.902*	2.806*
	Operation-Liner-related	3.093*	2.508*

Note: *represents significance at the 5% level

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