The ability of ports to ensure efficient cargo transfers is one central dimension of their overall…
César Ducruet
National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). Paris, France.
Dr. Ducruet obtained his PhD in Transport Geography from Le Havre University (2004) and has been research fellow at the CNRS Géographie-Cités research unit since 2009. His research interests include network analysis, transport and urban geography, with a particular focus on port cities and maritime flows in Asia, Europe, and the world. Besides extensive publications on such topics, Dr. Ducruet has been actively engaged in international activities such as post-doc research in South Korea and The Netherlands, scientific expertise (OECD project on port cities), guest lecturing, as well as large-scale European projects such as Marie Curie, ESPON-TIGER, and is currently leading an ERC Starting Grant "World Seastems" project (2013-2018) on the spatio-temporal analysis of global maritime flows since the 18th century.
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Measuring land-sea interactions at ports and cities: insights from geomatics and network analysis
Geographers (Rimmer, 1967) and historians (Person, 1985) early addressed certain critiques to existing port-city and port-hinterland…
Advances in Shipping Data Analysis. Contributions to maritime studies
The last two years 2016 and 2017 have been particularly productive in terms of large-scale, edited…
GeoSeastems: an innovative tool to map global shipping flows. Application to the Mediterranean region
In the last ten years or so, online visualizations of maritime data become more and more…
Port-city relationships and global maritime flows in the last 120 years
Surprisingly, the analysis of port cities based on their maritime linkages is a new perspective in…
Inter-Korean maritime flows: beyond the border?
The border between North Korea and South Korea is one of the world’s largest gaps of…
Interview – The man who brought containerisation to Europe
Mr. Jean-Claude Morel is perhaps the most experienced person I have ever met, given his long…
Maritime networks in space and time
The international workshop “Maritime networks in space and time” (Paris, 16-18 June 2014) is probably the…
The World Seastems research project (2013-2018)
Maritime flows have been carrying the bulk of global trade for centuries. They can be seen…
Waterfront redevelopment: the fragility of local benefits
After decades of waterfront redevelopment, there is a crucial need to discuss what have been the…