Themes and tools of maritime transport research during 2000-2014

Shi, Wenming; Li, Kevin X.

doi:10.1080/03088839.2016.1274833

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“…Container port traffic has dramatically increased from 224,774,536 TEUs in 2000to 679,264,658 TEUs in 2014(Containerization International Yearbook, 2016, while global containerized trade reached 171 million TEUs in 2014 (UNCTAD 2015). Container shipping had contributed over 80% of international trade volumes and more than 70% by value in 2015 (Shi and Li 2017). The industry growth has been accompanied with changes in technologies, operations, economics, and regulations.…”

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Across the waves: a bibliometric analysis of container shipping research since the 1960s

Lau

Ducruet

et al. 2017

Maritime Policy & Management

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International audienceThe 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. Main results point to the gradual diversification of container shipping research, from the dominance of economics towards a more trans-disciplinary set of approaches which integrate port-related activities and multimodal networks. Yet, disciplinary specialization remains strong up to nowadays so that container shipping research remains rather fragmented. While co-authorships have increased over time, they remain polarized by few, weakly connected research battalions. Our study suggests that research on container shipping would benefit from more frequent contacts between such communities to foster in-depth cross-disciplinary studies and fundamental cooperation

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Across the waves: a bibliometric analysis of container shipping research since the 1960s

Lau

Ducruet

et al. 2017

Maritime Policy & Management

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“…For instance, Yin, Luo and Fan (2016) use the volume of coal and iron ore from trade data as a demand proxy for regional freight rates in the Capesize drybulk market. In general, any research that deals with market fundamentals, such as the study by Kagkarakis, Merikas and Merika (2016) on demolition market dynamics, could benefit from AIS-derived tonne-mile demand data (see, Shi and Li, 2016, for a comprehensive review of the recent maritime transport literature).…”

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Are AIS-based trade volume estimates reliable? The case of crude oil exports

Ådland

Jia

Strandenes

2017

Maritime Policy & Management

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Most global trade statistics in the public domain refer to official customs data, which are not generally available on a micro (individual cargo) level. With the increasing availability and completeness of ship positioning data from the global Automated Identification System (AIS), it is possible to derive more timely and detailed trade statistics for homogeneous commodity groups. The objective of this paper is twofold: 1) to compare the accuracy of AIS-derived trade statistics to official customs data in the crude oil market and 2) to add a breakdown of trade by vessel size over time. We find that while AIS-derived data for seaborne crude exports show good alignment with official export numbers in aggregate, there are substantial temporal and geographical differences across countries and time due to the use of pipelines and transshipment in parts of the supply chain. We highlight the challenges in properly structuring and aggregating micro-level cargo data. Our findings are important for the proper derivation of shipping demand from trade data.

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“…From our search for the relevant key words, we discovered that "shipping" was the most researched field in maritime transport; more specifically, topics related to port, including "port management, service, performance, efficiency and competitiveness," were the most popular, as well as "shipping market, industry, freight rate and economic impact"; and "terminal studies" [11]. Furthermore, research on seaport has grown steadily since the 1980s to become a dominant theme in maritime research [7].…”

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Dynamic Changes in Maritime Research Capability in Chinese Universities

Chang

Choi

2019

Journal of Advanced Transportation

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This study determines the top fifty authors in China and their university affiliations in the maritime transportation field, compared to their world ranking. We refer to China in the broad sense of the Chinese economies, including not only mainland China and Hong Kong, but also Chinese Taipei (Taiwan) and Singapore. This study analyzes sixty-five SSCI and SCI journals in the field of maritime and transportation between the years 2000 and 2015. In terms of ranking, three indicators are employed: total number of articles, weighted score (indication of author contribution), and the impact score. With the exception of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, no other universities selected in the first phase of Project 985, which received billions of dollars in government support/aid, were listed in the world ranking. Star authors are deemed to have contributed greatly to the rankings of their affiliated universities. The future of China’s rankings is bright in view of the increasing number of papers being published by Chinese authors and universities and their strong grounding in quantitative methodologies.

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Themes and tools of maritime transport research during 2000-2014

Cited by 82 publications

References 108 publications

Across the waves: a bibliometric analysis of container shipping research since the 1960s

Across the waves: a bibliometric analysis of container shipping research since the 1960s

Are AIS-based trade volume estimates reliable? The case of crude oil exports

Dynamic Changes in Maritime Research Capability in Chinese Universities

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