Transportation networks play a crucial role in human mobility, the exchange of goods and
the spread of invasive species. With 90 per cent of world trade carried by sea, the global …

While maritime transport ensures about 90% of world trade volumes, it has not yet attracted
as much attention as other transport systems from a graph perspective. As a result, the …

The paper aims to explain the evolution of the containerized and general cargo maritime
routes in the last 3 years using complex networks analysis. Several particular results are …

Despite early cartographical and graph-theoretical analyses of maritime flows in the 1940s
and 1960s, it is only from the 2000s onwards that maritime network analysis had grown …

Coupled and interdependent networks constitute a relatively recent research field that has
been so far little invested by port and maritime specialists. The extent to which certain ports …

Maritime transport accounts for over 80% of the world trade volume and is the backbone of
the global economy. Global supply chains create a complex network of trade flows. The …

Port and maritime studies dealing with containerization have observed traffic concentration
and dispersion throughout the world. Globalization, intermodal transportation, and …

We propose a new index, the Container Port Connectivity Index, to measure the trade
connectivity of ports within the network of container shipping. This index is based on both …

Two contrasting approaches to the provision of maritime services are frequently presented:
one based on direct port to port services, the other characterised by a hub and spoke …

This article investigates the degree of overlap among the different layers of circulation
composing global maritime flows in recent decades. Mobilizing several methods originating …