Cesar Blaise Ducruet

Published: Feb 25, 2018 by Transport Reviews
Authors: Wang L., Zhu Y., Ducruet C., Bunel M., Lau Y.Y.
Subjects: Geography , Area Studies

Container shipping gives a rise of international trade since the 1960s. Based on navigation data start from the mid-1990s to 2016, this paper empirically analyses the spatial pattern of China’s international maritime linkages along the “twenty-first-century Maritime Silk Road”. We interpret such evolutionary dynamics in terms of growth, hierarchical diffusion and networking phases.

Published: Jan 04, 2018 by Journal of Transport Geography
Authors: Ducruet C., Cuyala S., El Hosni A.
Subjects: Geography , Area Studies

This article is the first-ever analysis of cities in relation to maritime transport flows from a relational, or network, perspective. Based on untapped vessel movement data covering the last 120 years, this articles sheds new light about the interdependencies at stake between urban hierarchies and port hierarchies overtime.

Published: Jan 03, 2018 by Chinese Geographical Science
Authors: Ducruet C., Wang L.
Subjects: Geography , Area Studies

China's global shipping connectivity had been somewhat overlooked as the bulk of related studies predominantly focused on the throughput volume of its own port cities. This article tackles such lacunae by providing a relational perspective based on the extraction of vessel movement archives from the Lloyd's List corpus. Two complementary analyses are proposed:long-term dynamics with all ships included (1890-2008) and medium-term dynamics focusing on container flows (1978-2016).

Published: Nov 30, 2017 by Cahiers Scientifiques du Transport
Authors: Metge M., Ducruet C.
Subjects: Geography , Area Studies

Les travaux sur le réseau maritime mondial montrent le poids secondaire de l’Afrique et l’influence grandissante de l’Asie dans la connectivité de ce continent, au détriment de l’Europe. Cependant, cette approche englobante tend à négliger le rôle des acteurs économiques du transport international, et notamment celui des armateurs, dans l’insertion de l’Afrique dans les flux mondiaux.

Published: Apr 11, 2017 by Maritime Policy and Management
Authors: Lau Y.Y., Ducruet C., Ng A.K.Y., Fu X.
Subjects: Economics, Finance, Business & Industry, Information Science, Research Methods

The paper investigates collaborative and semantic patterns that emerged between 1967 and 2013 about the theme of container shipping based on a corpus of 294 articles published in scholarly journals within the fields of transportation, supply chain, economics, geography, regional planning and development, and operations research. An analysis based on the co-occurrence of title words allows identifying dominant sub-themes and their evolution.

Published: Feb 27, 2017 by Journal of Transport Geography
Authors: Ducruet C.
Subjects: Geography

This article investigates the degree of overlap among the different layers of circulation composing global maritime flows in recent decades. Mobilizing several methods originating from complex networks allows us to shed new light on specialization and diversification dynamics affecting the evolution of ports and shipping.

Published: Jul 20, 2016 by Journal of Shipping and Trade
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Subjects: Geography , Area Studies

This paper revisits the classical issue of port-city relationships by applying for the first time network analytical methods to maritime flows connecting cities of the world, over the period 1950–1990. A global matrix of interurban vessel flows was elaborated for about 600 cities using data from the Geopolis and Lloyd’s Shipping Index databases and the rigorous assignment of ports to both coastal and inland urban areas.

Published: Jul 01, 2016 by Journal of Economic Geography
Authors: Ducruet C., Itoh H.
Subjects: Geography , Area Studies

This article proposes a quantitative analysis of the interdependencies between port specialization and regional specialization across the world. A global database is elaborated, covering about 360 port regions in both developed and developing countries. One goal is to verify how interdependent port traffic and regional characteristics are, in a context of increasingly flexible commodity and value chains.

Published: Jun 16, 2015 by Revue Internationale de Géomatique
Authors: Buard E., Devogele T., Ducruet C.
Subjects: Geography , Research Methods

Mobile objects are moving in a portion of space. Their positions are measured in different ways: devices located on fixed locations or held by the object. We expose methods to construct and analyze trajectories of mobile objects. For that, we are using two study cases: ship and herbivore movements.

Published: Mar 18, 2015 by Maritime Policy and Management
Authors: Ducruet C.
Subjects: Geography , Area Studies

It is widely acknowledged that the two major interoceanic canals of Suez and Panama play a central role in global shipping flows. However, this role has rarely been measured with precision both in terms of the geographic coverage and network topological properties of canal-dependent flows. Based on vessel movement data for containerships, this research clarifies the weight and share of canal-dependent flows globally and at the level of world regions, routes, and ports.