Nature Communications (Jun 2020)

Modular gateway-ness connectivity and structural core organization in maritime network science

  • Mengqiao Xu,
  • Qian Pan,
  • Alessandro Muscoloni,
  • Haoxiang Xia,
  • Carlo Vittorio Cannistraci

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16619-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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It is crucial to understand the evolving structure of global liner shipping system. Here the authors unveiled the architecture of a recent global liner shipping network (GLSN) and show that the structure of global liner shipping system has evolved to be self-organized with a trade-off between high transportation efficiency and low wiring cost and ports’ gateway-ness is most highly associated with ports’ economic performance.