Novel Approach for Comprehensive Centrality Assessment of Ports along the Maritime Silk Road

2019 ◽  
Vol 2673 (9) ◽  
pp. 461-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Wu ◽  
Di Zhang ◽  
Chengpeng Wan ◽  
Jinfen Zhang ◽  
Mingyang Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Silk Road ◽  
Container Shipping ◽  
Maritime Industry ◽  
Maritime Logistics ◽  
Great Opportunity ◽  
Topological Features ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Service Information ◽  
Maritime Silk Road ◽  
Shipping Networks

The Belt and Road (B&R) initiative provides a great opportunity for facilitating the development of the maritime industry. Ports, as the main components of the global maritime logistics system, have attracted attention from both industry and academia in relation to the evaluation of their role in maritime shipping networks. To assess the importance of ports along the Maritime Silk Road (MSR), this paper constructs a container shipping network based on the service information of 16 world-leading container liners and analyzes the disparity of ports based on the topological features of the network. A novel multi-centrality-based indicator is proposed to analyze the centrality of ports along the MSR from a more comprehensive perspective, and the obtained results are further verified by using vulnerability analysis. The results indicate that the Port of Hong Kong, Port of Singapore, Port of Shenzhen, and Port Klang are at the center of the MSR container shipping network. The vulnerable ports identified by different methods are largely consistent. This study provides a reference for the management of ports along the MSR and a theoretical basis for future optimization of container shipping networks in other areas of the world.

Identifying important ports in maritime container shipping networks along the Maritime Silk Road

2021 ◽  
Vol 211 ◽  
pp. 105738
Author(s):  
Chengpeng Wan ◽  
Yinxiang Zhao ◽  
Di Zhang ◽  
Tsz Leung Yip
Keyword(s):  
Silk Road ◽  
Container Shipping ◽  
Maritime Silk Road ◽  
Shipping Networks

Analysis of topology and routing strategy of container shipping network on “Maritime Silk Road”

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 72-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liupeng Jiang ◽  
Yue Jia ◽  
Cheng Zhang ◽  
Wei Wang ◽  
Xuejun Feng
Keyword(s):  
Silk Road ◽  
Container Shipping ◽  
Routing Strategy ◽  
Maritime Silk Road

scholarly journals From hierarchy to networking: the evolution of the “twenty-first-century Maritime Silk Road” container shipping system

2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 416-435 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liehui Wang ◽  
Yan Zhu ◽  
Cesar Ducruet ◽  
Mattia Bunel ◽  
Yui-yip Lau
Keyword(s):  
Silk Road ◽  
First Century ◽  
Container Shipping ◽  
Maritime Silk Road ◽  
Twenty First Century

scholarly journals INDONESIA’S “MARITIME WORLD FULCRUM” AND CHINA’S “MARITIME SILK ROAD”

2015 ◽  
pp. 196-204
Author(s):  
L. M. Efimova
Keyword(s):  
World Market ◽  
Silk Road ◽  
Maritime Industry ◽  
Business Opportunity ◽  
Indonesian Archipelago ◽  
Maritime Silk Road ◽  
The World ◽  
Road Project ◽  
Close Cooperation ◽  
World Maritime

In 2014 the newly elected Indonesian president Joko Widodo declared his doctrine “In- donesia – World Maritime Fulcrum”. His intention is to transform Indonesia which connects two great oceans – Indian and Pacific – into a strategic logistic and trade world hub as well as the main supplier of sea products for the world market. Indonesian government plans to build 35 deepwater and ordinary ports across the archipelago during the next five years. The implementation of the project demands colossal money investments and gigantic volumes of work. Indonesia cannot do it alone, the country needs foreign investors and constructors. A number of Asian and Europe countries expressed their intentions to cooperate with Indonesia in the maritime sector. But the most interested turned out to be China which expressed its ardent desire to cooperate with Indonesia in the sector of maritime industry. And it is quite understandable taking into consideration that China worked out its own project “Maritime Silk Road” which comprises the same sea territory as Indonesia’s “Maritime Fulcrum” project. Chinese leaders invited Indonesia to closely cooperate in implementing these two projects which are mutually coinciding and complementary. Indonesian leaders gladly accepted this invitation hoping to gain a lot from cooperation with China. Chinese “Maritime Silk Road” project will contribute to the development of inter-island communicativity which is strongly needed especially in the eastern part of Indonesian archipelago. In addition China agreed to participate in building and reconstructing Indonesian ports. Some Indonesian observers greet close cooperation with China as a very profitable business opportunity but others express apprehensions that too close cooperation with China could be dangerous for Indonesian sovereignty over its territorial waters.

scholarly journals Maritime sector at verge of change: learning and competence needs in Finnish maritime cluster

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-79
Author(s):  
Vesa Kilpi ◽  
Tomi Solakivi ◽  
Tuomas Kiiski
Keyword(s):  
International Trade ◽  
Environmental Regulation ◽  
Vocational Training ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
Maritime Industry ◽  
Maritime Logistics ◽  
The World ◽  
Equipment Manufacturing ◽  
University Level

AbstractShipping plays an important role in the world, transporting over 80% of international trade and employing over 1.5 million seafarers. The maritime industry, including shipbuilding and equipment manufacturing, is extensive. Both of these interconnected businesses are facing rapid change caused by increasingly speedy technological development and the tightening of environmental regulation. This survey-based research analyzes the current and future competence needs of firms operating in maritime logistics and the maritime industry. The findings indicate that in both contexts, the increasing importance of various general competences is understood and the need is recognized in particular to improve those related to environmental regulation as well as technology and automation. Overall, the gap between current and desired levels of competence is expected to widen. In terms of education, this is likely to affect vocational training and university-level learning differently in that functional competences are emphasized more in the former and social and meta-competences in the latter.

scholarly journals Spatial pattern of location advantages of ports along the Maritime Silk Road

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-176
Author(s):  
Naixia Mou ◽  
Chunying Wang ◽  
Jinhai Chen ◽  
Tengfei Yang ◽  
Lingxian Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Pattern ◽  
Silk Road ◽  
Maritime Silk Road

scholarly journals Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Blues: Powering BRI Research Back on Track to Avoid Choppy Seas

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Marc F. Blanchard
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Chinese Foreign Policy ◽  
Silk Road ◽  
Belt And Road Initiative ◽  
The Road ◽  
Political Costs ◽  
Maritime Silk Road ◽  
Belt And Road ◽  
On The Road

AbstractThis piece examines and critiques the massive literature on China’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). It details how research currently seems stuck on the road to nowhere. In addition, it identifies a number of the potholes that collective research endeavors are hitting such as that they are poorly synchronized. It also stresses that lines of analysis are proliferating rather than optimizing, with studies broadening in thematic coverage, rather than becoming deeper. It points out that BRI participants are regularly related to the role of a bit player in many analyses and research often is disconnected from other literatures. Among other things, this article recommends analysts focus on the Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI) or Silk Road Economic Belt (SREB) in specific regions or countries. It also argues for a research core that focuses on the implementation issue (i.e., the issue of MSRI and SREB project implementation), project effects (i.e., the economic and political costs and benefits of projects), and the translation issue (i.e., the domestic and foreign policy effects of projects) and does work that goes beyond the usual suspects. On a related note, research need to identify, more precisely, participants and projects, undertake causal analysis, and take into account countervailing factors. Furthermore, studies need to make more extensive use of the Chinese foreign policy literature. Moreover, works examining subjects like soft power need to improve variable conceptualization and operationalization and deliver more nuanced analyses. Finally, studies, especially by area specialists, should take the area, not the China, perspective.

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