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Estimating Demand For Container Freight Service At The Port Of Davisville, James Kroes, Yuwen Chen, Paul Mangiameli
Estimating Demand For Container Freight Service At The Port Of Davisville, James Kroes, Yuwen Chen, Paul Mangiameli
Yuwen Chen
The Port of Davisville, located at Quonset Point, Rhode Island, is a former US Navy facility that was turned over to Rhode Island for commercial development when the naval base closed in 1974. Since then, a number of proposals have been put forth to expand the port’s operations to include the handling of containerized cargo. The Port of Davisville’s managing organization, the Quonset Development Corporation (QDC), partnered with this academic research team to objectively analyze the viability of three proposals: (1) a major expansion of the port to make it an international container megaport, (2) a lesser investment to make …