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MARC-ANTOINE FAURE

DOCTORANT(E)

Thesis title

  • Transport Infrastructures, Political Economy and Local Economic Development

Under the direction of

  • arrow_right Thesis supervisor: César Ducruet
  • arrow_right Thesis co-supervisor: Anna Bottasso

Research group

    Transitions, Environnement, Énergie, Institutions, Territoires

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2025-27

Shipping Network Research: A Systematic and Quantitative Review

César Ducruet, Marc-Antoine Faure

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Abstract
Once developed by geographers, shipping network research has long remained a peripheral subfield of academia. Increased shipping data availability and computational power, combined with renewed graph-theoretical methods, caused an unprecedented growth of shipping network studies since the late 2000s. This article provides an in-depth bibliometric analysis of no less than 329 peer-reviewed papers published between 2007 and 2025. First, it describes the gathered corpus from diverse angles, such as the growth of papers, the main journals, its disciplinary background, and the pattern of co-authorships. Second, we use a natural language processing (NLP) approach, namely the structural topic model, to undertake an in-depth analysis based on the contents of abstracts. We identify four main topics, of which trade and connectivity; hubs and centrality; vulnerability and robustness; and communities and spatial structure, which are discussed according to their innovative character compared with wider research on ports, maritime transport, and network science. Three additional subgroups received peripheral attention despite their core importance: environmental issues (of which, marine bioinvasions), socio-economic development, and the role of shipping alliances. We conclude that network science methods still have important potential in shipping network port and maritime studies, and propose several pathways for further research.
Mot(s) clé(s)
bibliometric analysis; complex networks; graph theory; maritime transport; scientometrics; shipping network; social network analysis; structural topic modeling
2024-24

Shipping Trade and Geopolitical Turmoils: The Case of the Ukrainian Maritime Network

Fabio Cremaschini, César Ducruet, Marc-Antoine Faure, Bárbara Polo Martin

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Conflicts, whether political, commercial or military, affect transport networks. Operators seek to avoid the most tense areas or reconsider certain routes. Certain links can be disrupted in case of local geopolitical tensions, which can have a significant global impact. The article is devoted to studying Ukraine’s maritime network and identifying changes in these structures because of the conflict that started in 2014. The purpose of the paper is to measure and visualise the main changes in the Ukrainian seaport system and maritime forelands from 2010 until the most recent data available (December 2023), from a network models, bilateral trade and route simulation framework. The principal results confirm the huge impact of military conflict on port connectivity, thereby contributing to the recent literature on shipping network vulnerability.
Mot(s) clé(s)
Black Sea, Complex networks, Shipping Trade, Russian-Ukrainian War
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