Visualizing maritime connectivity at national level: The case of LSBCI links of West European countries

Guerrero, David; Nierat, Patrick; Thill, Jean‐Claude; Cohen, Emmanuel

doi:10.1016/j.cstp.2021.10.001

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“…The frequency of connections increases the commercial potential between two partners [6]. This potential has been quantified by a 5% increase in the value of exports for each additional direct connection [8], as well as by an increase of 2.8% in exports and 2.4% in imports for each additional connection [13].…”

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“…Trade is also a subject frequently related to maritime transport and connectivity, and the impact of connectivity and the maritime network on trade has often been evaluated [13,19,20,36]. In this research, we aim to analyze reciprocal relations using bilateral container imports and exports and their impact on bilateral maritime connectivity, which we believe to be positive and significant.…”

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“…The choice of this measure was based on the level of granularity it brings to the analysis of connectivity in international trade. Additionally, there is no research work using this index in the Moroccan context and only a few articles have used this index in the African and Mediterranean basin context [5,13,14]. Finally, this index has mainly been used in the context of Asia, which is a world leader in bilateral connectivity.…”

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Maritime Bilateral Connectivity Analysis for Sustainable Maritime Growth: Case of Morocco

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Benmamoun²,

Hachimi

2023

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On the African continent, Morocco is considered among the most connected countries, according to the liner shipping connectivity index. Since optimal shipping connectivity can reduce CO2 emissions and trade costs, through this paper we aimed to deepen the understanding of maritime connectivity based on the bilateral maritime connectivity index of Morocco and 138 of its economic partners. We first established an overview of the evolution of the bilateral maritime connectivity in Morocco and highlighted its main regional maritime partners, then defined through a statistical analysis the factors influencing the development of the bilateral maritime links of the country in order to strengthen sustainable maritime connectivity. The results of the descriptive analysis show that Morocco has developed strong maritime connections with Europe and the East of Asia and has an improved connectivity with East African countries (2006–2020). The statistical analysis of the selected factors using regression analysis combined with a gravity model shows that there has been a strong and positive impact of economic growth, logistics, linear connectivity and the maritime component, and bilateral connectivity. Moreover, economic trade and barriers have had no significant effects on bilateral connectivity.

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Maritime Bilateral Connectivity Analysis for Sustainable Maritime Growth: Case of Morocco

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“… Cheung et al (2020) developed a novel max-min integer optimization model to improve shipping network connectivity by investigating the largest eigenvalue and the corresponding eigenvector of the frequency weighted adjacency matrix. According to multi-dimensional scaling (MDS), Guerrero et al (2021) offered a visualization of the Liner Shipping Bilateral Connectivity Index by focusing on the shipping connections of 10 west European countries. Tovar and Wall (2022) employed a stochastic output distance function to study the empirical relationship between maritime connectivity and port efficiency, including a panel dataset of 16 Spanish ports over the period 2006-2016.…”

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Impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on foreign trade intermodal transport accessibility: Evidence from the Yangtze River Delta region of mainland China

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Shi²,

Guo³

2022

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

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“…MDS provides a synthetic visualization of a dataset such as ours in the form of a space of lower dimensionality, typically one, two or three dimensions. Readers are referred to Guerrero et al (2021) for a more detailed methodological discussion of MDS applied to LSBCI data and to Kashiha et al (2013) for some other applications in the freight transportation domain.…”

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Shifting proximities: visualizing changes in the maritime connectivity of African countries (2006/2016)

Guerrero

Nierat

Thill

et al. 2022

Maritime Policy & Management

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As a process, containerization in Africa is still on-going. In the last decades, a number of new port projects have emerged in parallel with the reorganization of services by shipping companies. To reflect these changes, this paper studies several questions on the geographic differentiation of maritime connectivities across the continent as well as on the longitudinal trends in maritime connectivities in relation to evolving economic, trade and logistical contexts.To this end, we propose a synthetic visualization of the country-level containerized links using the Liner Shipping Bilateral Connectivity Indicator (LSBCI). The resulting graph, obtained through Multidimensional Scaling (MDS), shows that West Africa and East Africa appear as relatively separated subsystems, mediated by several countries in the Northern and the Southern parts of Africa. Between 2006 and 2016, West Africa, initially tied to Europe and America, is increasingly tied to Asia. Our results show major improvements in the maritime connectivity of Morocco, Djibouti and several West African ports. Conversely, most of mainland East African countries stagnate or decline. Connectivities have not converged across the continent.In some cases changes in maritime connectivity mostly result from variations in vessel size. We explore a method to identify these situations.

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Visualizing maritime connectivity at national level: The case of LSBCI links of West European countries

Cited by 5 publications

References 9 publications

Maritime Bilateral Connectivity Analysis for Sustainable Maritime Growth: Case of Morocco

Maritime Bilateral Connectivity Analysis for Sustainable Maritime Growth: Case of Morocco

Impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on foreign trade intermodal transport accessibility: Evidence from the Yangtze River Delta region of mainland China

Shifting proximities: visualizing changes in the maritime connectivity of African countries (2006/2016)

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