Special issue introduction: maritime networks and transnational spaces

Featherstone, David

doi:10.1111/glob.12264

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“…Maritime transportation is the backbone of international trade, since around 80% of global merchandise trade by volume and over 70% by value is carried by ships and handled by ports worldwide (UNCTAD, 2021). As such, shipping connections between countries in maritime networks are important transnational relations (Featherstone, 2019). Especially, liner shipping accounts for about 70% of the total value of world's seaborne trade (UNCTAD, 2021), becoming an important part of the maritime supply chain.…”

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Assessing the efficiency and vulnerability of global liner shipping network

Zhu

Deng

et al. 2023

Global Networks

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Global liner shipping network (GLSN) constitutes an essential part of global maritime supply chains, but it could be vulnerable to disruptions. This paper develops an integrated framework for assessing the efficiency and vulnerability of GLSN. Specifically, a novel efficiency metric is proposed to quantify the performance of GLSN, and the framework enables modeling different levels of port disruption scenarios. Results show that the overall GLSN is quite robust under the partial disruption scenario of any single port (or of any single country's ports), but the damage to different countries is highly heterogeneous. Under dismantling scenarios where the identified most critical ports (countries) are successively disrupted, the GLSN vulnerability increases non‐linearly with an increasing level of disruption. Our findings demonstrate that it is necessary to monitor and protect the identified critical ports (countries); especially, avoiding their simultaneously complete disruptions is of vital importance to the robust functionality of GLSN.

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Assessing the efficiency and vulnerability of global liner shipping network

Zhu

Deng

et al. 2023

Global Networks

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“…The unbalanced distribution of oil and gas resources has led to the inevitable need for the global allocation of those resources as globalization continues to unfold, and most countries rely on trade to acquire oil and gas resources (Guan et al., 2016; Zhang et al., 2014). As a result, maritime networks play a crucial role in resource trading (Featherstone, 2019). Statistically, in 2015, the global crude oil trade rose by 5.2%, namely 3 million barrels daily.…”

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The evolution of structural resilience of global oil and gas resources trade network

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This paper establishes anetwork resilience evaluation framework of the global oil and gas resourcetrade network in 2010, 2015 and 2020. The results are as follows: The links of the oil trade network present a gradually shrinking trend, and the gas tradenetwork presents a trend of close connection first and then reduced. In termsof network density, network centrality, network connectivity and network size, the structural resilience of the oil and gas resource trade network displays ashrinking trend, and the gas trade network is superior. Concerninginvulnerability and recovery, the resilience of the oil trade network issuperior to the natural gas trade network. In simulated attacks, the oil tradenetwork reveals a higher resilience towards intentional attacks, and the gastrade network shows a higher resilience towards random attacks. The Strait ofHormuz and the Strait of Malacca are critical chokepoints in the networks.

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